Word: hymns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...appeal to the younger generation that the Democrats are courting. They returned to the podium for the traditional show of unity, with the defeated candidates closing ranks behind the winner. The delegates swayed once more in unison as a black Broadway musical performer, Jennifer Holliday, belted out The Battle Hymn of the Republic. Rabbi Jacob Pressman pronounced the benediction...
...will hymn enduring England's glories...
...morals of sacrifice, so clear then, are more confusing now." This statement reminds me how we have advanced in the technology of annihilation. Engaging in battles, once thought glorious, is now considered an obscenity. I am reminded of the words of an old hymn, "Time makes ancient good uncouth...
...among the sweetly earnest Callaway, the game and leggy Cox, the knowing but uncynical Fowler. But it is Callaway who has the show's signature song, a first-act finale that somehow summarizes Baby's strengths. Called The Story Goes On, it is, of all things, a hymn to the joys of joining the great chain of being. It could have been bathetic. It could have been pretentious. It could have been desperate. But like much else in an entrancing entertainment show that only looks small and simple, it succeeds in making you feel good without making...
Eighty spirited voices rose above the organ, singing: "Have you been to Jesus for the cleansing power/ Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?" But before the worshipers had finished the first hymn, they heard a series of dull thuds. Suddenly, an elder of the church was staggering down the aisle, fatally wounded, and warning the congregation to take cover. As people dived under the benches, bullets began ripping through the thin wooden walls. When the siege was over, three churchgoers were dead and seven lay wounded. It was one of the more savage terrorist attacks in Northern...