Word: precentor
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...fantasy to present a heavy parable of American life-especially the life of the semi-migratory U.S. bourgeoisie and the uncertain ecology of their nesting grounds in the U.S. suburb. Suburbia, which in its modern form is barely a generation old, has so far lacked the kind of precentor or poet that the South, the West, the City, and the Small Town long since acquired. In John Cheever, Suburbia has its first poet-mythologist...
...king and country, many were dying in the Battle of Britain. Some articulate Britons guide C.N.D. Among them: Angry Old Philosopher Bertrand Russell, 88; fiery Socialist M.P. Michael Foot; Transport and General Workers' Union Boss Frank Cousins; and C.N.D. Chairman Canon Lewis John Collins, 56, the politicking precentor of St. Paul's who has proclaimed as the C.N.D.'s goal "converting the Labor Party effectively and then seeing to it that it gets into power with a non-nuclear foreign and defense policy...
...black skullcap and white neckerchief, "Father Moody" will appear this Sunday at the meeting house built the year he died. As of yore, his congregation will be drummed to meeting, the tithing man will tickle the drowsy with a rod tipped by a rabbit's foot, the precentor line out the psalms and lead the singing with a pitch pipe. The sermon will be "The Doleful State of the Damned," which Samuel Moody first preached on August 21, 1710. He will pray that Queen Anne's reign continue happy and glorious, "that this place and all other places...
Died. Very Rev. Hugh Richard Lawrie Sheppard, 56, Canon and Precentor of London's St. Paul's Cathedral. Lord Rector of Glasgow University, famed as Britain's "Broadcasting Parson"; of a heart attack; in London...
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