Word: hymns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Krishnamurti, Huysmans and Mme. Blavatsky. He can write an outburst such as this-"I would like to penetrate up to the eyes to make them waggle ferociously, dear crazy metallurgical eyes ... the radiating light that carries off the fecundating seeds of the stars"-and mean it as a hymn to Dostoevsky. Actually, it has as much to do with the Russian's tragic art and exact moral theorems as it has with lepidopterology or philately; the only thing it says is that Miller is excited in the presence of Dostoevsky-or Nietzsche, Nostradamus, Rabelais, et al.-just as some...
Poulenc: Gloria in G Major for Soprano, Chorus & Orchestra (Rosanna Carteri; the French National Radio-Television Orchestra, conducted by Georges Prêtre, with chorus conducted by Yvonne Gouverné; Angel). Poulenc's 'joyous hymn to God," commissioned last winter by the Koussevitzky Foundation is recorded for the first time. It is a remarkable work fashioned with greater simplicity than some of Poulenc's more brittle pieces, in turn reverent, mischievous and exultant...
...Leone's Prime Minister, Sir Milton Margai, and his guests of honor: Britain's Duke of Kent, Liberia's William Tubman, Nigeria's Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, U.S. Special Representative Thurgood Marshall. At midnight some 15,000 celebrators jammed Freetown's stadium, sang the hymn Lead, Kindly Light, watched as spotlights dimmed on the Union Jack atop the flagpole, cheered ten seconds later as a new green, white and blue flag fluttered in its place. At that moment, little Sierra Leone (slightly larger than West Virginia; pop. 2,500,000), Britain's first colony...
...final story included is John Updike's "Wife-Wooing," a five-page hymn to love. While his predilections for cosmetics, hamburgers, and certain other American specialties seem out of place, his tone is beautifully consistent, his citing and borrowing from Ulysses indeed apt. Most important--and I suppose it's too bad for us--"Wife-Wooing" implies what is dally becoming more and more apparent: in a society which promises as much and fulfills as little as ours, one can honestly avoid hypocrisy only in meaningfully close personal ties
...Adams House Drama Society pushed every button, pulled every level, manipulated every winch and pulley that the Loeb Pleasure Palace houses in its bottomless toy box, in an immense and elaborate hymn to tedium. Peer Gynt fell--like the silly feathered pig which makes an agonizing descent from the rafters (while the actors stand and star, speechless)--with a long long, oh so long thud. (Three long hours...