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...Commencement dinner featured nine brands of champagne, and the feast itself included lobster, pheasant, beef, and innumerable delicacies. This seems a substantial improvement from Charles Francis Adams' day. His remarks on the post-ceremony meal: "The usual scramble for a bad dinner took place and the usual psalm, after which we left as rapidly as possible." The custom of the Commencement dinner has faded from the scene for unknown reasons...
...Faith of our fathers, living still," sang a weary, anxious, deeply troubled Jimmy Carter, "in spite of dungeon, fire and sword. . ." And when it came time for the choir to respond with the eloquent verses of Psalm 130, the President sat, head bowed, in his front-row pew at the National Cathedral and listened intently to the ancient words of hope in a time of trouble: "Out of the depths have I cried to you, O Lord, hear my prayer...
With Joe Restic at the pulpit, the offense on the alter and the defense manning the gallows, the Puritan spirit will rise again victorious. The Multiflex playbook will be the new Bay Psalm Book; and the men in somber black and white uniforms, with broad-brimmed helmets, will lead the way to New England purity--surmounting the invaders and eliminating the heathens...
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...staging of Bible material, like Alec McCowen's recital of the Gospel of St. Mark [Sept. 18], can have unexpected results. An actor had delivered the 23rd Psalm before an enthralled audience. Days later he heard an old rector read it in church. "The Lord is my Shepherd ..." After the service he grasped the rector's hand with the words, "Sir, I know the Psalm, but you know the Shepherd...