Word: organisms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...President of the U.S. entered by a side door, the organ played My Country, 'Tis of Thee. The modernistic, brick and glass First Baptist Church of Bonham, Texas, was full. John Kennedy took his place in a second-row pew, beside former Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and Harry Truman, and next to Vice President Lyndon Johnson...
...noble in his life shall abide forever," said the Rev. Bernard Braskamp, chaplain of the House. "We are not saying farewell, only good night." Elder H. G. Ball, the Primitive Baptist Church pastor who had baptized Sam Rayburn just five years ago, intoned the eulogy. Then, while the organ played America, the Beautiful, six of Mister Sam's lifelong friends carried him away...
Happily, operatic tradition and the difficulties of musical presentation excuse such a trite plot. At the same time they also obscured several of Mr. Smith's funny lines. Obfuscation failed to overcome the genuine slapstick in the organ scene of the first...
Also perfectly cast was James Billings as the meek and harried organ builder...
Initially, the six woman chorus seemed musically uncoordinated. The chorus's military maneuvers of the middle acts seemed little removed from bumps and grinds. (Fortunately, no one in the audience seemed to notice that in his ecstasy over the organ music, the Sultan was dancing the stroll...