Posted on 01/20/2006 7:12:07 PM PST by Chairman_December_19th_Society
(Re parties...how was yours?)
Good morning.
It was good; everyone said they wished we were just ordering pizza or snacking at our house. LOL
I did come home and mop the floors though; it was a rainy day and stuff got dragged in. Is it warm where you are? We have the heat off and it's muggy.
The time period was circa sixties, and there was still quite a bit of blatant racism going on not only in the deep south but in the rest of the country as well. The coach decides to recruit young black men. He and his assistant travel around the country mostly to the north and wind up with several recruits, which are none too welcome at this campus.
That ice is broken in a cafeteria scene with the new recruits playing a game with the whites with a head of lettuce for the ball and a large trash can held by another student for the basket.
Of course, the new recruits break training, Coach deals with that, the season starts and of course there are lots of strange looks on faces of opposing teams because of the boys being black.
They start winning and along the way there is some violence in a restaurant restroom and vandalism at a motel, but they all stay with it . A couple of the boys' mothers are also given some interesting roles; one who shows up to straighten her boy out in a fun comical couple of scenes; and the other one to plead with Coach to let her boy play after it was revealed that he had an enlarged heart and had to be taken off of the court but stayed on the bench.
Lots of basketball action, culminating with the national championship game with Kentucky, with lots of scripting of the very arrogant, racist Coach Rupp of Kentucky before and during the game. I wonder if he was really that arrogant? Coach Haskins decides to start and play only the black men for the game.
Lots of heartwarming moments throughout the movie for those of us that like to see the underdog win.
Be sure to watch the very end before the credits after the big game is over because it gives a one sentence biography of each boy and what he did with the rest of his life, ala American Graffiti.
There ya go, U.G.!
And did you have fun on your date?
A few weeks ago, we watched a movie with Denzel Washington in it -- Remember the Titans (?). True story of a football coach in the south and the initial racism of white boys not wanting to play ball with the black boys. It was a wonderful story.
I am finding the discussion of church music interesting. I'd never really considered the differences among denominations.
I grew up Methodist in the '50's, where I learned the traditional hymns. When I joined the Catholic Church in the mid '60's I was stunned that the Catholics barely knew how to sing!
This was just after Vatican II, and they were just beginning to sing the songs I considered to be "Traditional".
Almost 40 years later, they're doing a better job of it. We sing from a hymnal full of Traditional music.
Good morning! Glad the party was good! Thanks for the sweet words from yesterday. Read your post this am. I had a good time last night.
I am sad to say that church music is a hot topic among the US protestants. Many with my viewpoint feel railroaded by the more modern style. Many with the opposite viewpoint feel that my group is staid and too rigid.
And, yes, I had a very nice time. She is a very nice lady. No, I haven't brought up politics. Afraid to because she might be liberal since she is a special education teacher, and the party will be over. I'll have to eventually, tho. She did tell me that her youngest daughter, who just turned 18, detests the wicked witch. Her daughter's name is why she brought it up. Her daughter spells her name "Hilarie".
I lost a post to you. FR must be suffering from Grelims this morning.
I find Traditional hymns very comforting. Singing songs my Paternal Grandmother and my Dad used to sing to me still sends shivers down my spine. I lost them when I was quite young (a couple of years apart) and those hymns seem to be "a connection" to them for me.
We have good friends who have been married for 31 years and are at completely opposite ends of the political spectrum. They tease each other but it never gets ugly. I don't know how they do it.
Probably if her daughter hates Hillary, she's heard stuff at home so you might be okay. I'll keep my fingers cross!
I agree with all your comments. We're encouraged to learn the hymns and the vocal parts (alto, soprano, etc.) Each ward (congregation) organizes a choir and anyone is welcome to join. That's a great learning and teaching tool.
Copyrighted music can be a challenge for a church. Any new songs that are commissioned by the LDS church for celebrations or commemorations can be copied for use in church meetings. Since we have a hymnal and a children's songbook for the worship services on Sunday, we don't have too many problems with copyrights. We just have to be careful in the hymnbook to not copy copyrighted songs (such as How Great Thou Art.)
The choirs have budgets so tat the music is legal.
And you are absolutely correct when you say music should lead us to the worship of Christ. It is the sermons that are the pinnacle of the worship service. Well, that and the Sacrament.
I also think that music can carry the Spirit in ways that mere words can't. I was the pianist for Primary (the childrens oganization - childen ages 4-11.) We loved any new Janice Kapp Perry song, the words had so much truth and the music was easily taught. (Janice Kapp Perry has collaborated with Orrin Hatch and his lyrics. Unortunately I've not been too impressed.)
Oh, what an excellent and interesting column! I love how he presented the three options and compared it to what Jesus did. Very well done.
"......detests the wicked witch......"
I'd say that's a positive sign.
;o)
Thanks so much for the review. It is definitely on my list of movies that must be seen.
Yours truly, of course, in the political column, states clearly that he is "Ultra Conservative".
Music gives us a connection, as you mentioned, with the past. One reason I love singing older hymns is remembering that down through the ages the Church Militant (believers who are living) have sung those songs and have agreed with the same thoughts. I'm not suggesting that anything written since 1950 should be eschewed. Neither was music invented in 1975.
Yes, that was good to hear. I did state that I would be in complete agreement with Hilarie.
Yesterday, Harry Belafonte compared Homeland Security to the Nazis. His lack of historical perspective is pathetic.
I'd better go finish cleaning up the kitchen and have some tea.
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