Word: anthemic
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...also supposed to be something uniquely American, right up there with apple pie in the pantheon of the national iconography. Stadiums will be draped with patriotic red, white and blue bunting today; state leaders and mayors will throw out the first pitch; country music stars will sing the national anthem...
...years earlier, was blessedly free of political stress, since King Abdullah took up his late father's role as regional conciliator. Within minutes after John Paul's jet touched down on Tuesday at Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv, however, the band struck up Jerusalem of Gold, an anthem of Jewish attachment to the entire disputed city, whose eastern portion Palestinians want for their future capital. Israeli President Ezer Weizman, acting more as hardball politician than as statesman, described "united" Jerusalem as "the capital of the state of Israel and the heart of the Jewish world." The Pope responded...
...favorite scene in Casablanca comes towards the middle, where a group of German soldiers have begun singing the German national anthem in Rick's caf, a supposedly "neutral" zone, much to the chagrin of the French expatriates in the room. In a brilliantly heroic Hollywood move the movie's hero stands up suddenly and leads the band--who had been standing quietly by--in an equally passionate version of the French national anthem, which has all the French in the room in tears. For all its daring, this is the most carefully choreographed moment in the film...
...first half of the show concluded with a performance by the Kuumba Singers who performed renditions of the South African national anthem and Jordan River...
...three speakers drew a wide variety of guests, from conservative Undergraduate Council members to members of Hillel to four uniformed Reserved Officer Training Corps (ROTC) cadets, who carried the American flag as the Din and Tonics sang the national anthem...