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...Sing Sing's white-walled death chamber, the three newsmen allowed as witnesses noted that his mustache had been shaved off, that he wore a white T shirt, and that his feet were shod in cloth slippers. The prison chaplain, R^bbi Irving Koslowe, intoned the 23rd Psalm: "The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want . . ." Just before the chair, Julius seemed to sway. Guards quickly placed and strapped him in the seat, then dropped the leather hood over his face. Three shocks of 2,000 volts each flung his body convulsively against its bonds. Listening with stethoscopes...
...Throughout the brief installation, which consisted of a prayer, the presenting of the insignia, and President Conant's acceptance speech, there was no sound besides the speaker's voice and the crackling fire in the hearth. After the 78th Psalm had been sung by the Choir, the assembly broke up, while deans and Overseers gave a hand in removing the chairs to facilitate an approach to the long tables along the west side of the room on which the University had provided punch, tea, and sandwiches." For a half hour, Conant remained, greeting wellwishers...
When the clock hands crept toward 9, men bared their heads, and the crowd broke into Abide with Me and the 23rd Psalm. As shop shutters rumbled open and milk bottles clinked in the streets of London, Derek Bentley went to the gallows. Within minutes the prison gates opened with a clang, and a warder emerged with the traditional black-framed notice board: "The judgment of death was this day executed ..." The crowd surged forward with an angry roar; someone smashed the notice board. After half an hour's scuffling, the police-using only their fists-were able...
Palestrina is represented by the aforementioned Supplicationes (a litany to the Virgin with each stanza punctuated with a "Kyrie") and by Confitemini Domino, based on the 106th Psalm. Both are works of quiet persuasiveness and the voices seldom rise above piano. Variations or emotional intensity are expressed by slight dynamic alterations and by changes in the intervals between voices...
...spite of all its law breaking, Sheldon loved Our Town-and so, it turned out, did Broadway. On opening night, someone asked Alexander Woollcott, who had tears in his eyes what he thought of it. Said he, with his customary extravagance: "I'd rather comment on the 23rd Psalm...