Word: jerusalems
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...quiet intensity. There follows a rapid swell as the baritones rush upward, and the tenors break in with a quick, nervous melody. Soon all the parts join in to carry on the thread of the words until the voices suddenly blend in a soft chord on the word "Jerusalem...
There follows a terrific fortissimo "Jersualem" in all voices, which is followed by a gradual diminuendo as the tenors continue their nervous melody, the baritones subside down the scale, and the basses chant repeatedly an ever-quieter "Jerusalem." This structure is typical of the whole piece-rapid crescendos, gradual diminuendos, sudden shouts, and nervous bits of melody...
...Graduate School of Arts and Sciences: Woodbury Lowery fellowship to Charles F. Edson, Jr., '81 of Chicago; Austin followship to Stanley H. Boggs of Mentone, Indiana; James Savage scholarship to Aouny W. Dejany of Jerusalem, Palestine; Gorham Thomas scholarships to John A. Bovey, Jr., '35, of Minneapolis, Minnesota and Edwin L. Goldberg of Worcester; University fellowships to Jesse F. King '37, of Ojai, California, Fred F. Plimpton, '36, of Worcester, and Robert W. Rogers, '37, of Detroit...
...second splits when Clayton Reeves, a near-sighted English writer, whose father was Jewish, enters the Mosque of Omar, on the site of the Temple in Jerusalem. Three weeks before, Reeves's wife had died in Egypt. A sympathetic friend dragged him on a painful tour of the Holy Land - painful because Reeves's grief deepened in the grim and melancholy country and because he felt one of his rare epileptic attacks coming on. As he entered the Temple he felt dizzy, leaned on a pillar for support, realized he was fainting and looked at his watch...
...reign of King Josiah had leaned against a pillar in the Temple and stared at a leather amulet on his wrist as Reeves had stared at his wrist watch. The rest of the story is really Jeremiah's. It follows him back to his lonely childhood outside Jerusalem, through his exile, apostasy, agony, to his final peace. His wife, like Reeves's wife, had died in Egypt. Because he would not tell kings or commoners what they wanted to believe, he was imprisoned, hunted as a spy, nearly killed. When Jerusalem was laid waste, his last request -that...