Word: psalm
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...stumbled over an unbelievable number of lines. Oddly, he was at his best reading not Shakespeare but D. H. Lawrence-a poem called Snake, which is one of his favorites in all literature. But the high point of the evening came when he and Elizabeth read the 23rd Psalm. He would read a line in Welsh, then she would read a line in English, and they went through the whole psalm that way. The man with me said they sounded like a Paiute Indian and an acolyte, which surprised me, because I was really moved...
...field and pulpit and playground, in kitchen and classroom. The U.S. Negro, shedding the thousand fears that have encumbered his generations, made 1963 the year of his outcry for equality, of massive demonstrations, of sit-ins and speeches and street fighting, of soul searching in the suburbs and psalm singing in the jail cells...
...Nikita Khrushchev. In simultaneous articles, Red Flag and People's Daily accused him of paralyzing the Russian armed forces, of kowtowing to the capitalists-and of sounding too holy by far. "It is clear," said the Chinese, that "in spite of Khrushchev's Bible-reading and psalm-singing, U.S. imperialists have not become beautiful angels. They have not turned into compassionate Buddhas in spite of his prayers and incense-burning." In short, said Red China, Khrushchev is "a laughing stock...
...brave thrust at sociological jar gon, Professor Alan Simpson, who next year will become president of Vassar College, once transfixed students at Washington University in St. Louis by putting the 23rd Psalm into educanto...
...clear that the composers have approached the common idiom of twentieth century music--and beneath a few musical pinnacles, there really is one--much as a snake eats a rat: by swallowing it whole and unchewed. Giving the details of the ingestion would be too painful here. Three Psalm Fragments, by Thomas Benjamin, received a spirited performance by a selected chorus under Truman Bullard; the work is constructed of such modern musical discoveries as fourths, fifths, and tritones. It ends on a triad...