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Following the sermon, the congregation sang a hymn composed for the occasion by Gomes...
...crowd loves it. By the time Aa Gym ("elder brother" Gym), finishes his hour-long sermon with a plangent Islamic hymn, scores of women and men are openly weeping, and the roar of applause continues long after the TV cameras have been switched off. When he plunges into a crowd after a performance, there are always eager hands thrust out reaching for him, some fans even bowing down and kissing the preacher's hand, whispering a name to be remembered in his prayers. And always there are scores of squealing teenage girls hovering on the sidelines...
When the loudspeaker interrupted the Muzac version of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic,” I was standing in front of the cooking...
People who want to chase away those hangover blues with a hymn or two or to venture into new realms of spirituality should go see the Kuumba singers, because you can’t get no satisfaction at the House of Blues...
...latter include the somber and acerbic hymn of hate to the boredom French lefty intellectuals always attribute to respectable middle-class life, Sunday, 1888-1890. (Does the worthy proletariat ever suffer from ennui? Apparently not.) Nothing is happening. A young husband in a stiff jacket and striped pants is poking the fireplace in a desultory way. His wife stares out the window, her back to us. The folds and pleats of her costume, intensely formal, suggest a caryatid--but a caryatid with nothing at all to support and nothing whatever to do. An equally bored-looking cat, if cats...