Word: anthem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rally had everything a rally should have, including a mixer afterwards. A jazz band that wasn't from Harvard played some Harvard songs; an unknown "TV and recording artist" led a chorus of the national anthem; and at one point a local color-guard marched in, around the room...
...Anthem Unplayed. So far, the church's edging away from Franco is visible more in acts of omission than in commission-in the failure of the Bishop of Barcelona to attend the 20th anniversary of the city's liberation from the Republicans, in the refusal of the abbot to allow the playing of Spain's national anthem at a ceremonial dinner at the famous Basque monastery of Aránzazu (the abbot said the music was not "religious"), or in Pope John's own studied neglect to include a single reference to Franco in the papal...
...roar went up as a green-white-green flag was hauled aloft to replace the Union Jack. With that, Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation (36 million), became independent and took its place in the councils of the world. Solemnly, 40,-ooo voices rose in the new official anthem...
Three hours later, after many and a few songs, Pete Seeger the situation; the symbolism, those who cared, was reversed. dismay at a society where controlled machines descrate even Star Spangled Banner he request that the audience stand and, without companiment, sing the anthem's verse. "Think particularly," he "of the last lines: 'O say does that Spangled Banner still wave o'er land of the free and the home of brave." For a few minutes this dressed man, his seasick-green and red socks eminently his left hand moving up and down to control the collective voice...
...orchestra broke into God Save the Queen, Scottish Nationalist Wendy Wood, 66. stayed in her seat and hissed. Then, while tweedy Englishmen and their sensibly shod wives, stared in amazement, Wendy led a scattering of supporters in a ragged rendition of Scotland's own unofficial national anthem...