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...Harvard Band did not attend last night's game, so celebrity bugler Hannibal Dobbs from F Troop performed the National Anthem. SCORE BY PERIODS New Hampshire 0 1 3 -- 4 HARVARD...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Icemen Romp, 8-4 | 12/13/1978 | See Source »

...this time of year as reliably as gaudy lights and the Salvation Army, and with furrowed brows they hand the public a unique gift-clear warnings about the morbid hazards that lurk in the traditional seasonal celebrations. They are the jolly diagnosticians, and they dirge forth chanting their own anthem, a sort of Fugue for Handwringers, the gist of which is that there may be poisoned plums in the pudding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Get This Season off the Couch! | 12/11/1978 | See Source »

...evening nightlight was clearly the tribute the Hawaiian club paid to its native state. From the club's opening "ALOHA" to the warrior dance to the final hula, the audience watched spellbound. After it ended, everyone joined in a heart-warming, if stomach-turning, rendition of the Samoan National Anthem...

Author: By Michael E. Silver, | Title: Dunster Goes West, Young Man | 12/7/1978 | See Source »

FRANCO GAVE US PEACE, JUSTICE AND WORK, proclaimed one of the many signs held aloft by demonstrators. Waiting for the ceremonies to begin, the crowd began to chant, "You notice it! You can feel it! Franco is here!" Then the Spanish national anthem boomed over the loudspeakers, and the Franquistas snapped to attention and put their palms forward in the straight-arm Fascist salute. Bias Piñar, 60, a former Franco appointee to the Cortes and now the leading activist of Spain's diehard rightists, stepped forward from his place beside the dictator's 52-year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Restiveness on the Right | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

Casale shouts out "Are we not men?" like the enraged leader of a fanatical sect; the band answers with voices that are indescribable--but if de-evolution does exist, this is what it must sound like. The song moves through a section that sounds like a patriotic anthem, then builds into a frenzied repetition of question-and-response, Casale varying his emphasis in every possible way--"Are WE not MEN?" "ARE we not MEN?" "Are we NOT men?" The chorus mirrors his emphasis each time...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Nothing Like Nihilism | 11/28/1978 | See Source »

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