hymn

“Our Town,” unfolding at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre like a glorious hymn, was the play I didn’t realize just how badly our country needed right now.

The young women, wearing dresses in various shades of pink, one of the sorority’s colors, softly sang their national hymn.

That wished-for breakthrough animated much of the action on the Yard, where students and alumni were dancing even before Howard’s gospel choir sang “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” the hymn adopted by some as a Black national anthem.

On September 3, Steinbeck’s wife Carol came up with the title “The Grapes of Wrath,” an allusion to Revelations 14:19–20 and a verse from “Battle Hymn of the Republic” by Julia Ward Howe.

But it was Coldplay who were left singing a victory 'hymn for the weekend' after getting five correct results with one exact score, for a total of 80 points.