Word: processional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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It remained for the 20-minute-long fifth movement, which one critic called "among the very greatest things that Mahler has left us," to lift the pall of futility. The doom-laden thump of a muffled drum, an idea that Mahler conceived one day when he heard the drums of...
Candlepower. More than anything else, candlepower saved the day. On Wall Street, a man from Merrill Lynch dropped in at Our Lady of Victory Church, left a generous contribution, and made off with all the votive candles. At the U.N., Secretary-General U Thant worked for five hours with light...
When Queen Elizabeth II paid her first official visit to the U.S. in 1957, New York reporters spent warm hours trudging alongside her ticker-tape parade up Broadway. At one point, they were startled by the sight of an unexpected limousine in the procession. In side, cool and elegantly dressed...
Singing, the procession started to move, with a Negro schoolteacher and a white priest in front. It wasn't very big.
The marches urged watching Negroes to join the procession. A few did, and the group wound by the state park, passing before the reproachful eyes of Alexander Stephens. The procession passed under a railroad bridge and climbed the courthouse knoll.