Word: anthemic
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...performance of the National Anthem by the Dartmouth Band was a stirring rendition with all the finest instruments...namely a guy wailing on a huge Poland Springs water cooler with a mallet...
...just go toward broken welfare systems; they pay for the basic, simple services everyone takes for granted. Taxes sustain the livelihoods of millions of American workers. They support soldiers and firefighters and pay for our elections. They are the dues we pay to get goosebumps at the national anthem...
...During the playing of the National Anthem, a commercial "introducing bigger, tastier chicken stripes" blasted from the TVs in the press box. Really hard to maintain composure after that...
...Most of the 11 new songs are only serviceable. Nothing quite matches We're All in This Together, the anthem from the first HSM, which is repeated here in a more liturgical version, as if the young Phil Spector had remixed the You-Know-Which Tabernacle Choir. But the title number, sung at the end by the company, locates some of the separation anxiety of the mid-teen years. The music is perky, the undertone poignant: "I just hope the rest of my life / Will feel as good as my / High school musical, who says we have...
...Some yards away from the gate, a local police band, regaled in elaborate turbans and stiff uniforms, trumpets the national anthem. Beside them, serried schoolboys chant patriotic songs. Despite the somewhat affected talk of peace, Kashmir retains its visceral importance on both sides of the divide. When the prime minister's retinue releases half a dozen white pigeons into the air - doves are as rare as peace has been in these parts - a mild breeze prompts them all to fly back to the Pakistani side. "See, none of them wanted to go over to the other side," one observer notes...