Word: anthemic
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...seem to court controversy. How about the time when you wouldn't permit the U.S. national anthem to be played at one of your concerts? Some people think you do these things to get attention...
...that time in this country, they were stopping black artists from expressing themselves. They were censoring art, and they wanted to play their anthem before an artist went onstage. I wasn't going to make a public thing out of it. They were the ones that went public. But I learned from that. Now, as a human being and as a Christian, I must do whatever I can -- by any means necessary without the use of violence -- to fight for what I believe...
...Frank Sinatra said he wanted to kick you in the butt when you rejected the national anthem, the actor Joe Pesci said he would have slapped you if he had been on the show when you ripped the picture, and a group smashed your records to protest what you had done. Why do you think it upsets people so much when you speak...
Attentive parents can find other reminders of the glory days of their own youth. A&M Records' Tim Noah belts out a Springsteen-style anthem: "I was raised on rock 'n' roll/ Bo Diddley, Fats Domino/ Mama rocked me by the radio/ Raised on rock 'n' roll." Rory, who records for Sony, does a tongue-in-cheek imitation of Diana Ross in a cut from her album I'm Just a Kid. This Saturday, Radio AAHS, a 24-hour children's station in Minneapolis, will sponsor a concert featuring well-known kids' performers like Joanie Bartels and Bob McGrath. They...
...ceremony was interrupted by three Harvardstudents who appeared on the library steps intheir boxer shorts. The men disrupted the rites byblowing out candles, pulling down their shorts,and singing the Canadian national anthem, "OCanada," during Ender's speech...