Word: ward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have been told that your magazine reported that 1 have transmitted abroad Solzhenitsyn's last novel, Cancer Ward [May 31]. I categorically deny this. I have not been in the Soviet Union since 1964. This novel was finished in 1966. I don't personally know Solzhenitsyn, whom I admire deeply. And had I had an opportunity to publish his work, it would have been morally impossible for me to act against his will...
...stating that a copy of Cancer Ward went to Madame Zamoyska, TIME did not mean to imply that she had transmitted the novel abroad...
Through her father, Aretha became immersed in gospel music at home as well as in church. Such stars as Mahalia Jackson, Clara Ward and James Cleveland often came by the house for jam sessions, whooping and clapping, singing and playing all through the night while Aretha watched intently from a corner. Once, at a funeral for an aunt of Aretha's, Clara Ward was singing the gospel tune Peace in the Valley; in her fervor, she tore off her hat and flung it on the ground. "That," says Aretha, "was when I wanted to become a singer." Aretha...
...orgiastic jubilation shouts with the abrasive, existentialist irony of "devil songs." He even carried over the original gospel tunes and changed the words to fit the emotion. "Lord" became "you," or "baby," and it didn't matter if the bulk of the prayerful text remained the same. Thus Clara Ward's rousing old gospel song, This Little Light of Mine, became Charles's This Little Girl of Mine. (A wonderful indemnification!) Oldtimers who had once been forced to choose between the two genres were offended. "I know that's wrong," said Bluesman and former Preacher Big Bill Broonzy. "He should...
...Julia Ward Howe Francis Scott...