Word: joyousness
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...Barber's 20-minute work used as its text none of Kierkegaard's intricate philosophizing, but some simple and often beautiful prayers which Composer Barber culled from the preacher's writings. The work begins with plain chant, moves on to orchestral fortissimos. a restrained soprano solo, joyous choral passages and occasional Dies Irae trumpet blasts. But the overall effect is quiet, without either the sweetness or the grandeur expected of religious music. It is clean rather than austere. But at its best, the music matches the tender earnestness of the prayers' poetry...
...London to study art, she came back with an incomprehensible bad habit-smoking cigarettes. Trailing ; thin plume of smoke, Emily escaped again, this time to Paris. In Paris she felt "like a pine tree in a pot," but learned to paint in what she called "the despised, adorable, joyous, modern...
...Donald Soper, 51, such strenuous witness is the only hope of Christianity and Methodism. When he was elected president of the British Methodist Church last July, he called, in his acceptance speech, upon his fellow Methodists for "greater adventure in open-air evangelism . . . lively, informed, joyous . . . work and worship." He continued the lunch-hour meetings at Tower Hill, where he has been preaching his vigorous version of socialist-pacifist Christianity for the past 26 years, and did his best to follow founder John Wesley's example of making all England his parish...
...three great faiths, hatred is scheduled to take a 52-hour moratorium. As in years past, Moslem and Jew will lay aside their guns so that the Christian world may celebrate the birth of the Prince of Peace. Early Christmas Eve, at bullet-pitted Mandelbaum Gate in Jerusalem, a joyous and expectant caravan begins to form on the Jewish side. These are 3,000 Christians who live in Israel-most of them Arabs and all but a handful Catholics-cut off all year from their kinfolk by the Arab-Israeli war. They yell greetings to their impatient families...
...were impressively represented in the persons of eight Prime Ministers (of Ceylon, Pakistan, India, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia, Canada and Britain), two Archbishops (York and Canterbury), and the Lord High Chancellor of England in full-bottomed wig and gown. Last came Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and then, with joyous fanfare of trumpets, Her Majesty, the Queen...