Word: psalmist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Brown's cult was still growing; crowds still swarmed to his farm. He had begun to intone like the Psalmist and to compare himself (favorably) with Christ. The master cell, said Brown, "takes all the fight and hatred out of men and animals alike. It will prevent disease and pestilence. It will prevent famine. It will make pigs fatter; make cows produce more milk. It makes the atom bomb obsolete . . . The master cell is my God, and it will bring peace...
...King David knew what he was talking about, then Freud was off base. From many of the Psalms, it is plain that Psalmist David understood the meaning of anxiety. Psychologist Orval Hobart Mowrer, associate professor of education at Harvard University, assured the top U.S. scientists convening last week at Chicago (see SCIENCE) that David, for all his poetic language, was on solid psychiatric ground...
Professional musicians and musicologists are still locked in hot debate about the musical origins of the spirituals and the manner of their creation. One simple fact is clear-they were created in direct answer to the Psalmist's question: How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land? For the land in which the slaves found themselves was strange beyond the . fact that it was foreign. It was a nocturnal land of vast, shadowy pine woods, vast fields of cotton whose endless rows converged sometimes on a solitary cabin, vast swamps reptilian and furtive...
Nearby stands the Holy Sepulcher, erected as most Christians believe on the site of Golgotha (the Place of the Skull). There Christ suffered on the Cross and uttered, in extremis, the words of the Psalmist which echo over the centuries the cry of many a Palestinian Jew today: "Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?-My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken...
...liberal mankind came to permit them to. He is explaining how you and I come to be here in this vast emptiness with night falling. But he can only explain. He cannot offer a counterpart, in the language and feeling of the atomic age, of the words of the Psalmist...