Word: sung
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best of the memorials were, correctly, a tribute to his spirit rather than an attempt to overstate his accomplishments. Amid all the words written or spoken or sung, none put the tragedy and the truth of Kennedy's death into better perspective than the first two sentences in the script of An Essay on Death, a National Education Television documentary. "This is a program about death. It is also a commemoration of a man who was among us a short while ago, and one who, having been the essence of potentiality, stirred in us a deep and perplexing grief...
...Roman Catholic chapel on the University of New Mexico campus last week, one woman worshiper commented on the vaguely familiar hymn sung at the end of the Mass. "It's very pretty," she said. "Who wrote it?" Her response was a disbelieving gasp when the priest explained that O God, Almighty Father was a Lutheran hymn...
Highlight of the festival was a premiere of the movie Your Cheatin' Heart, the life story of Singer-Songwriter Hank Williams, the "hillbilly Shakespeare." The songs on the sound track are sung by Williams' son, Hank Jr., 16, who wheels around town in the white Cadillac in which his father was found dead of a heart attack on New Year's Day 1953, at the age of 29 ("He just lived himself to death," the legend goes...
...Sung Mrs. Finley jumped out of bed out of window she popped her head Crying, "John, John, the trees are gone And the MDC's on the town-o town-o, town...
...time this goes to press, Ginsberg will have read and sung again to Harvard students. I don't have much idea what he'II be like. I've seen a lot of different Ginsbergs during his week in Cambridge--from an extravagant bohemian ranting about schemers in Washington and Moscow, to a mellow gentleman inquiring after a blonde Cliffie's major, to a concerned New Yorker remonstrating with the Mayor's son, to a relaxed and gentle nudist in the CRIMSON sanctum. He is, I think, a surprisingly loving man; one who knows well the hell of rejection and longs...