Word: anthem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hippie Anthem. None has so far matched the distinctiveness and power of the Beatles' mixture-which, after all, is responsible for having boosted them into their supramusical status. Thus their flirtation with drugs and the dropout attitude behind songs like A Day in the Life disturbs many fans, not to mention worried parents. The whole Sgt. Pepper album is "drenched in drugs," as the editor of a London music magazine puts it. One track features Drummer Ringo Starr quavering, "I get high with a little help from my friends." Another number, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, evokes...
...Double Edge. In his first speeches, De Gaulle started off cautiously, but he kept talking about French Canadians as a people that must "take its destiny in its own hands." He led crowds in singing the Marseillaise and did not seem displeased when hecklers booed the Canadian national anthem. At Montreal's city hall, he responded before a large, excited audience: "I find myself in an atmosphere the same as that of the liberation of Paris." A few moments later, he shouted "Vive le Quebec libre," the notorious cry of Quebec separatists...
...return to the Commonwealth as an in dependent state. At week's end, Adams flew to New York on a fund-raising mission and announced that he even hopes to confer with President Johnson in Washington. One further hint of the island's thinking: its new national anthem has been set to the tune of the Battle Hymn of the Republic...
Biafra already has selected its own national anthem-modeled after Finlandia -and Ojukwu hopes to write the words himself. Though the international community has so far given no recognition to the new regime, Biafra is potentially a viable economic and political state. It produced $250 million worth of crude oil last year and also exports coal and palm-oil products. Gowon faces no mean task in forcing the rebel regime back into the union, especially since leaders in both his Mid-Western and Western regions, including the influential Chief Obafemi Awolowo, have shown no enthusiasm for military action against...
...that suddenly took the place of whiny Arab folk songs on Radio Cairo. The absentee-prone Lebanese parliament, perhaps the world's most unmartial body, became so incensed that it took the warlike step of ending its emergency session with a wildly off-key singing of the national anthem. National Guardsmen in Da mascus had a fine time stopping all traffic on the city's wide boulevards and ordering everyone to take shelter-even though nothing more ominous appeared in the sky than a few vultures. In Israel, though it was the Sabbath, on which traveling...