Word: singed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...awesome and unmistakable as God speaking in judgment. It went through bone and marrow. It was the hour of renaissance. The girls no longer needed to be reminded of Bible classes. They came on their bicycles through continual strafing attacks, both on Sundays and weekdays, to pray and sing together...
...wrote several English-flavored songs, a quantity of church music and an "oratorial entertainment" entitled The Temple of Minerva, which his scattered fans claim as the first American opera. His most ambitious work was Seven Songs, dedicated to his old friend George Washington, who confessed that "I can neither sing one of the songs, nor raise a single note on any instrument to convince the unbelieving." Composer Hopkinson now appears on a Concord album entitled American Anthology, which takes the listener on a rambling and revealing excursion into the American musical past. Hopkinson's deferential A Toast to Washington...
...Pittsburgh Post-Gazette suggested that the waiting correspondents could well sing the new ditty, I Made a Fool of Myself Over John Foster Dulles. Cabled the Chicago Daily News's Keyes Beech from Hong Kong: "In the opinion of the correspondents, the Dulles statement authorizing them to travel to China (TIME, Sept. 2) was deliberately and provocatively contrived to leave the Reds no choice but to refuse." At his regular news conference, Secretary of State Dulles said that the U.S. would "consider on its merits" any application by a Chinese newsman to enter the U.S. To some, this seemed...
...painted an impressionistic portrait of the Artist as a Young Manic: "I despised school. I played hooky at least twice a week, and once I ran away with a girl who in later life achieved a certain fame. Because she murdered a half-dozen people and was electrocuted at Sing Sing. But there, I'm wandering again. Well, finally, I guess I was around twelve, the principal at the school paid a call on my family, and told them that in his opinion I was 'subnormal.' He thought it would be the humane action to send...
...played heavily on the comic effects, e.g., King Solomon's staccato outbursts, and included some melodious arias which went down like whipped cream. The moral is sung by the prophet, who is young and just getting started in the business: "Whether we prognosticate/grief or joy/for love or hate/prophets sing the will of fate...