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...school and university concerts were more unconventionally rewarding. After the quintet's performance at a boys' high school, a tall wiry cheerleader bounded on stage to lead a lusty, "Rah-rah-rah Harvard." Then the boys sang the Mexican National Anthem...
...National Anthem...
...whole country seemed to breathe a sigh of relief. In three jammed galleries of Buenos Aires' red-and-gold Chamber of Deputies, spectators embraced, cheered, waved handkerchiefs, then spontaneously broke into Argentina's national anthem. The capital's vote was in, and a few hours later, countrywide returns made it official: Dr. Arturo Umberto Illía, 63, was Argentina's new President-elect, after polling 270 electoral votes-31 more than the majority he needed. Finally, it seemed, Argentina was a nation again...
...form of the heinous ZIP Code. In order to head off the loosely organized foes of numerification, the post office is carrying on a large-scale public relations program, including the biggest mass mailing in history. They have even gone so far as to devise a little ZIP Code anthem, arranged for the music of "Zip-a-Dee-Do-Dah," a sacred tune which once signified the beauty of life...
Henry V is not so much a play about individuals, to be watched by an audience, as it is a kind of communal experience of revelry, hoopla, and even mystical ecstasy. A production almost becomes a corporate singing of a national poem instead of the national anthem--through which act the characters and the audience all brainwash each other. Three cheers for Harry the All-Britannican...