Word: anthem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...medal ceremony in which Smith and Carlos bowed their heads during the national anthem and raised clenched fists, Hoffman happened to be sitting with Smith's and Carlos's wives. According to Hoffman, Pete Axthelm, a Newsweek correspondent, had invited the two wives over to sit with them during the race...
...military hated the words. "A subversive lyric," said General Luis de Franĉa Oliveira, Rio's secretary of public security. "A musical cadence of the Mao Tse-tung type that can easily serve as the anthem for student street demonstrations." In a fit of anger, police in Rio's main street arrested one group of youths merely for listening to Caminhando outside a record shop...
...wasn't going to run until John Carlos told me I had to," said Evans. But he was clearly not taking too many orders. All three 400-meter runners wore black berets to the awards ceremony, and all three stood bareheaded at attention for their national anthem...
Effective but Petty. As a way of calling attention to racial strife in the U.S., the demonstration was undeniably effective. But it was also painfully petty. East Germans, Russians, even Cubans, all stand at attention when The Star-Spangled Banner or any other national anthem is played. Other equally militant U.S. black athletes were aghast at Smith and Carlos' actions. "I came here to win a gold medal-not to talk about black power," said Ohio's Willie Davenport next day after winning the 110-meter high hurdles. He stood straight and tall and proud on the Olympic...
...small combo with electrified instruments that churns out Nashville-style country music and leads the audience in a slow rendition of God Bless America. Then on come the Taylor Sisters, Mona and Lisa, two seasoned blondes who harmonize a couple of toe-tapping standards and belt out an anthem entitled Are You for Wallace? (to the tune of Are You from Dixie...