Word: precious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first mellow chords rippled from the organ and piano, Aretha stepped out of the robed choir that was massed on tiers behind the altar. Moving in front of a lectern, she closed her eyes and sang: "Precious Lord, take my hand ..." The congregation nodded or swayed gently in their seats. "Sing it!" they cried, clapping hands. "Amen, amen!" Her melodic lines curved out in steadily rising arcs as she let her spirit dictate variations on the lyrics, finally straining upward in pure soul...
...decided to sing the gospel song Precious Lord. The words, as the congregation knew them, were straightforward and simple...
...Precious Lord, take my hand...
...learn to live with crisis, since that is the only way you will live through it." Students worldwide, he said, "have been at the very heart of the greatest and most promising revolution in human history. And when revolutions come, they inevitably tear into the valuable, the precious and the sanctified as well as into the obsolete and the useless." He told students to "get off the mourner's bench; you must not cloak yourself in the mantle of a wailing Cassandra. The great revolution represents birth pangs and not death throes, the life force and not the death...
...vote, v. 30% for a slate favorable to Native Son Hubert Humphrey and 20% for Eugene McCarthy; then, in the far more crucial California contest, it was 46% for Kennedy, 42% for McCarthy and 12% for an uncommitted delegate group. The two victories gave Kennedy 198 precious delegate votes. Plans were being made for the campaign's next stages in New York and other key states, but first, that night, there were some formalities and fun to attend to: the midnight appearance before loyal campaign workers (and a national television audience) in the hotel's Embassy Room, a quiet chat...