Word: anthemic
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...blared, crooned, strummed, tooted and mumbled thousands of times a year, The Star-Spangled Banner is a song almost no one gets exactly right. A few musicians, historians and public officials would like to replace it. Indiana Congressman Andrew Jacobs has reintroduced a bill that would change the national anthem to the more easily warbled America, the Beautiful...
...many Americans agree with the critics: 53% of those polled by TIME/CNN last week feel the anthem is easy to sing; only 28% think it should be replaced by America, the Beautiful; 64% claim to know all the words...
...anthem runs deep in American life, a fixture wherever fireworks explode or a ball is tossed. Although Congress did not make the Banner the nation's official anthem until 1931, the military began playing it at ceremonies as far back as 1898. It made its major league baseball debut in Chicago during the 1918 World Series, when the band struck it up for no apparent reason and Babe Ruth and the crowd stood at attention. Now it is played before everything from Pee Wee hockey to the Super Bowl...
...give us what we want/ Got to give us what we need/ Our freedom of speech is freedom or death/ We got to fight the powers that be"). The song not only whipped the movie to a fiery pitch but sold nearly 500,000 singles and became an anthem for millions of youths, many of them black and living in inner-city ghettoes. For these listeners, rap in general, and Public Enemy in particular, is more than entertainment -- more, even, than an expression of their alienation and resentments. It is a major social force...
...because it fails to comply with official wrapping regulations ("No string; paper tape only. Next!"). Attracted to their positions by good pay, generous benefits, job security and a predictable, not to say slow, pace, today's postalworkers are being dragged | against their will into the 21st century by the anthem of the Age of Fax: get a move...