Word: anthem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Henry V is not so much a play about individuals, to be watched by an audience, as it is a kind of communal experience of revelry, hoopla, and even mystical ecstasy. A production almost becomes a corporate singing of a national poem instead of the national anthem--through which act the characters and the audience all brainwash each other. Three cheers for Harry the All-Britannican...
...mannerisms matter far less than the value of his honest complaints. He is an advocate of little men, and if he remains one himself, it only enriches the ring of his lyrics?as in his best song, Blowin' in the Wind, an anthem for the whole lost crowd he speaks...
...Negro children of Birmingham, however, kept right on marching. And despite all they were up against, despite hoses and clubs and police dogs and hate and folly, there was a peal of truth in the prophecy of the anthem that the marchers sang...
...idea for an Israeli mutual fund originated with Michael Haft, a 39-year-old Israeli economist sent to the U.S. to plead for investment funds at parlor meetings. Haft did not like the unbusinesslike approach. Says he: "The time has come to stop singing the Hatikvah [Israel's anthem] to raise a dollar." Instead Haft settled on mutuals, hoped that $10 million might be raised. He took his idea to Boston Movie Exhibitor Lawrence Laskey, who had large holdings in Bonds of Israel and was equally tired of parlor meetings. Impressed, Laskey bypassed Jewish-controlled investment houses to avoid...
...wished to convey more monolithic artistic ideas than a narrative could portray, and so dispensed with distinct characters and made the story of the crossing of the Red Sea only the first half of the work. What then resulted is what one scholarly critic called "an overblown anthem"--a series of resounding proclamation of the Lord's might, many of them superb in their declamatory power--yet the whole work lacks drama...