His celebratory words marking its 250th anniversary included not only the traditional paeans to the Founders but also a dose of personal grievance, plus soaring praise for his own achievements.
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Susan Page,
USA Today,
5 July 2026
Alas, all those paeans to freedom have played out better in song than in real life.
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Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
25 June 2026
Ashura processions are usually dramatic affairs, with chanters singing elegies or dirges dedicated to Hussein, while audience members beat their chests and engage in displays of mourning.
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Nabih Bulos,
Los Angeles Times,
22 June 2026
The pioneering alt-country band returns with its first album in 30 years—a set of cryptic, languid dirges that feels defiantly out-of-time.
Paul drove into Wilkes-Barre from Princeton on Christmas Day after the chapel service and dropped his bags at a forlorn motor lodge on Public Square—Christmas carols dragging at slow speed on its sound system—and swung by my parents.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 June 2026
That's4Entertainment's Christmas Con 2026 will take place at the New Jersey Expo Center in Edison, New Jersey, from December 11-13, and its halls will be decked to the gills with carols, tree lightings and sweet treats.
Because the psalms were originally accompanied by instruments, scholars’ best guess is that selah was some sort of musical marking.
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Drew Goins,
The Atlantic,
28 July 2026
Take The Music Lesson, a study of a young woman playing the virginal, closely watched by a gentleman, which Graham-Dixon reads as a depiction of Collegiants chastely performing and singing psalms.
Chattel slavery, in all its brutality, Sojourner laments, could not just be forgotten; African Americans needed to be compensated for centuries of hardship.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 July 2026
Fines aren’t the answer to the EU’s laments, but better third parties are.
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