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From Moscow came another sign that the Soviet cycle from world revolution to nationalism had run its course. On the eve of Joseph Stalin's 64th birthday, the Soviet Union ditched the stirring, incendiary Internationale as the State anthem, substituted an awkward paean to Stalin and the New Russia...
...some doubt as to who, exactly, is writing the laws. But there is never any doubt as to who is the chief songwriter in that melodious land. He is Ernesto Lecuona. He wrote the famed, romantic air which outsiders could scarcely be blamed for supposing was the Cuban National Anthem-Siboney.* He wrote Canto Karabali (Jungle Drums), Andalucia (The Breeze and I), La Comparsa, Say Si Si, Maria La O, and a host of other numbers which have made Cuban melody world-famed...
...Cuban anthem is a march by Pedro Figueredo. Siboney is a love song about a hypothetical Indian girl of the Siboneyes, a tribe that inhabited Cuba at the time of the Spanish conquest...
...daydreams, obscene pictures, movies, burlesque. Music, jazz or otherwise, was at the bottom of the list. Half of the group reported being aroused (notably between the ages of ten and twelve) by experiences that have no obvious connection with sex, such as seeing a big fire, hearing the national anthem, fast car driving or bicycle riding, reciting in class, watching marching soldiers, finding money, being late to school, seeing their own names in print...
...small monastery by his beard, shot dead. A priest at Herakleion Cathedral, accused of aiding the guerrillas, was stripped naked in the sanctuary, forced to dig his own grave, then shot. Most of these priests, said the Bishop, died murmuring prayers or singing the Greek National Anthem...