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Word: hymns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...should be. I think President Nixon in his inaugural address was at times pushing the necessity of mankind's working together and accepting one another, but Jesus Christ, in his three-year term, pushed it much harder and stronger. Here in America, we have a heritage of hymn-singing, churchgoing Christianity, but I think the age demands that we start acting like Christians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 7, 1969 | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

Radical Fringe. Miller certainly provides plenty of conflict. In a typical hour of programming, he devotes 30 minutes to standard middle-of-the-road pop music: a Frank Sinatra ballad, a Lawrence Welk instrumental and, again and again, Andy Williams singing Battle Hymn of the Republic. Sixteen minutes is given over to smoothly delivered commercials, five minutes to news, and nine minutes to "commentaries on our times." Samples: - On law and order: "I don't agree there's a civil war in this country between blacks and whites. I think there's a great civil war between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disk Jockeys: Howard Power | 1/31/1969 | See Source »

...know how great it is," he called out as he limped toward his wife. Then he embraced her for a long moment, tears running down his cheeks. When Hodges' coffin was removed from the lead plane, the happy families abruptly fell silent while a band played the Navy Hymn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE RETURN OF THE PUEBLO'S CREW | 1/3/1969 | See Source »

...large wind band, Hammersmith. Holst was a chaste, humble man of quiet, massive integrity and gentleness. His conscience burned aghast at the stupidity of conflict while at the same time luxuriated in stout goodwill. While most comfortable in small forms, Holst also created large works such as the Hymn to Jesus, the opera Savitri, the cinematic Planets, and the sombre tone poem Egdon Heath. The Ensemble was less successful with this work, but the excellence of the brass choir, which played with solar brightness, was the best I have heard all year...

Author: By Chris Rochester, | Title: Wind Ensemble | 12/19/1968 | See Source »

...noxious gas that swims in your earthly light --ancient Dutch hymn...

Author: By Steven W. Stahler, | Title: An Attempt to Clarify What Exactly It Is That Richard Brautigan Says About Trout | 12/17/1968 | See Source »

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