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...nothing sacred? After church leaders set about updating the United Methodist Hymnal in 1984, their most controversial acts were to excise one of the most popular hymns in the Protestant repertoire, Onward Christian Soldiers, and to strip verses from The Battle Hymn of the Republic. The literal-minded rationale: a pro-peace church should not use "militaristic imagery." Outraged parishioners would have none of it. The two hymns were restored -- banners, watch fires and all -- after the revisionists were inundated with 11,000 protest letters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Singing Hymns and Hers | 6/12/1989 | See Source »

...coming of age. In its first sequence, little & Ursula Brangwen (who will grow up to be played by an intense Sammi Davis) races dangerously close to the water, reaching out for the title symbol. As she leaves home in the final sequence, another rainbow arches above her, beckoning her onward. In between, she experiments with lesbian and heterosexual lovers (Amanda Donohoe and Paul McGann, respectively), endures a bleak passage as a teacher in a working-class school and witnesses the end of an Edenesque England. All these experiences test her, stir her questing spirit and lead her finally to feminist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Worthy Life | 5/15/1989 | See Source »

...League in New York City. But actual interest in the Michelangelo of Neosho, Mo., was fairly low, which mirrored the poor esteem into which American regionalism, the populist art movement that in the '30s had tried to assuage the miseries of the Depression, had slumped. From the late '40s onward, regionalism had come to look cornball, and its project, which was to rescue American art from the supposed corruptions of Europe and New York, almost comically dated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Tarted Up Till the Eye Cries Uncle | 5/1/1989 | See Source »

...Onward, ever onward. The music business means to turn VCR fanatics, who spent $7.5 billion buying and renting tapes in 1987, into music freaks. Two major artists from Columbia Records (owned, of course, by Sony) have become point men in this brand-new marketing assault: Michael Jackson and Bruce Springsteen, who are both releasing new, ambitious feature-length video albums...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Magical Tours | 1/23/1989 | See Source »

Frank and comprehensive AIDS education must be implemented into public school curriculums from kindergarten onward, a director of a coalition of child advocacy groups said yesterday at a School of Education-sponsored workshop...

Author: By Jennifer Atkinson, | Title: More AIDS Education Needed, Expert Says | 11/2/1988 | See Source »

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