Word: organisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Theft. In Denver, thieves broke into a theatre, swiped 41 pipes from the organ...
...Satisfactory, pushed on into Ethiopia last week with a new weapon -propaganda. Even in the Ethiopian bush this proved to be a potent factor, for the area into which the Negus was pressing was Gojjam Province, long a hotbed of native revolt against the Italians. Haile Selassie's organ of propaganda was a newspaper written in Amharic, called Bandarchen ("Our Flag"), bordered with the Ethiopian Imperial colors, mastheaded with the monogram of the Lion of Judah, and bristling with nationalistic slogans. Sixty camels, with armed escort under a British officer, carried this peripatetic newspaper's printing plant...
...chaplain. No longer must he double as canteen or mess officer, postmaster, athletic or entertainment director. Now he can concentrate on his spiritual work, aided by the Army's new mobile trailer chapels (there are only twelve so far), complete with altar, loudspeaker, vestments and altar furnishings, portable organ, Bibles, religious literature, other morale equipment. "In 1917," said Dr. Moody, "we were furnished a flag-a piece of blue bunting with a white cross on it. What else? Nothing. . . . It is estimated that 45% of the Army are without church affiliation or religious convictions. When the Army endorses religion...
Next week Warner Brothers releases the biggest Capra-Riskin picture to date, Meet John Doe. Capra-Riskin produced it independently, spent seven months on it and $1,100,000. They sat down at a great Hollywoodian organ, used every last stop, smote every key on every manual. Yet they built their music around one of the simplest and oldest of themes: LOVE THY NEIGHBOR...
...resources of his instrument, as have Messrs. Capra & Riskin in invoking almost every great emotional appeal from the Nativity to The Star Spangled Banner, the largest possible music had better come out. Anything else may topple artistically from sheer pompous top-heaviness. When Capra-Riskin open up the cinema organ in Meet John Doe, what comes out is not solid but uncertain musical structure (in the middle of the picture they even fall back on coy effects with a small dog), not so much Bachian power as Lisztian super-schmalz. Their organ often sounds not so much a classic organ...