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...fiery fall. That concern weighed on many minds as the country was getting back to business after the shock of Robert Kennedy's assassination. At Harvard's class day last week, David Shelton, the senior-class chorister, chanted new lyrics to the university's old anthem. Among the lines...
Entering the Common to the bopping sounds which have become the anthem of the anti-war mongers, one is pleasantly reminded, in bronze, that this is the exact spot, the very knoll on which George Washington took control of the American Army in July...
...authentically Viennese than anything since the days of Bruno Walter. Then, last week, there was Lenny again, preparing to conduct that most Viennese of operas, Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier. He professed to be terrified. "Every Vienna taxi driver knows Rosenkavalier as well as he does the national anthem," said Bernstein, adding with a little Viennese exaggeration, "It's like walking into the lion...
Last week 50 Negroes, led by Playwright LeRoi Jones, trooped into the Newark city council chamber to confront Imperiale's vigilantes attending a routine council session. When a phonograph played the national anthem, the Negroes refused to stand and the whites cried: "Throw the bastards out!" Jones, arguing against the proposed use of police dogs in the ghetto, told the council: "Our rational plea to this community is to avoid the emotional issue of dogs. Whether you own Newark or not, nobody can sell ashes...
...Cheyenne, Wyo., and got his kicks by galloping along a slow-moving freight taking pot shots at hoboes with his six-gun. Those who survived ran into a different danger in trackside camps. Homosexuality was rampant, and Allsop insists that The Big Rock Candy Mountain, the hobo's anthem, is really "a homosexual tramp serenade," one of "the 'ghost stories' the accomplished seducer spins to entice a child away with him on the next train...