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...renge-kyo," are roughly translatable as "Glory to the Lotus Sutra of the Mystical Law." In homes, it is usually chanted in front of a Go-honzon, a small wooden altar containing a replica of the original prayer scroll, the Dai-Gohonzon, still enshrined in Japan. * One Soka Gakkai song-to the tune of I've Been Working on the Railroad-immortalizes the practice: "I've been doing shakubuku all the livelong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sects: The Power of Positive Chanting | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

Syrian in derivation and Canadian by birth, Paul Anka was raised in Ottawa, where his father ran a restaurant called The Locanda. At twelve, Paul organized his own trio, at 14 he sold his first song-to a small record company in Los Angeles. Blau Wildebeeste Fontaine sold a mere 3,000 copies, disappointing the ambitious youth, who felt that the world was passing him by. But then came the climax of a lifetime. "It was in the spring of my fifteenth year," he recalls solemnly. In stirring tribute to an older woman (she was pushing 18), he wrote Diana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tin Pan Alley: Paul the Comforter | 11/3/1961 | See Source »

...authors of The Hut-Sut Song-to whose bouncing tune the lyrics of Hot Shot Dawson can easily be sung-last week kept silent as soo-it, mum as a rillerah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Hot Shot and Hut-Sut | 7/28/1941 | See Source »

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