Word: anthem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mistaken. Last week, while quietly minding my own business during the opening night performance of Adaptation-Next at the Theatre Company of Boston, that pseudo-anthem-like tune and the slushy lyrics that go with it once again reached my ears. But the circumstances were quite different this time around-and since they were, "Born Free" no longer seemed annoying but terribly crazy and wonderful and pathetic and funny instead...
...many of the hippie values and life styles, from psychedelic clothing to spontaneous, unashamed nudity to open and casual sex. Youthful imaginations were captured, most obviously, by the hippie sound: the driving, deafening hard beat of rock, music that is not just a particular form of pop but the anthem of revolution. The Jefferson Airplane, one of the first and best of the San Francisco groups, sang out the message at Bethel in words of startling explicitness...
...foot cowhide horns, calypso singers and tribal dancers. Shouts went up when the East African Airways VC-10 appeared, flanked by four Fouga jet trainers: "There he is! He's coming, that good man." The Kampala police band, its drummers in leopardskin overalls, played the Uganda national anthem as President Milton Obote greeted the Pontiff. Heads of four other African states stood by in a LandRover: Tanzania's Julius Nyerere, Zambia's Kenneth Kaunda, Burundi's Michel Mi-combero and Rwanda's Gregoire Kayi-banda. Then the Pope was off, in an open Lincoln Continental...
Star Rita Tushingham puts it this way: "There's this feeling that the Queen is yours, when the anthem's played and everybody stands up together." Without the monarchy, Britain would be simply another minipower. Charles may or may not resent having been born to be a king. But for years to come, little old British mums will continue to dote on royalty while angry young critics will condemn it. It is at once the pride and the burden of the monarchy that both will be right...
...many of our generation look forward to enjoying the life that our parents lead, are inspired by the things that inspired them or feel to be important ideals that are the breath of life to them? How many Englishmen under 25 stand to attention when the anthem is played or long for the great days of Empire? Your father's bluff common sense and your mother's gracious ordinariness are precisely the qualities needed to capture the affection of our parents. That is precisely why they seem an irrelevancy to us. It is not that we dislike them...