Word: anthems
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...solid majority in the Assembly and a favorable image with the voting public. But with the unions getting ever more restless and militant and with some grumbling on the back benches, the President will soon have to offer something more than a certain Kennedyesque charm and a revised national anthem if he hopes...
...Republic thinks Ihe familiar version is too rapid, loo chromatic. He just does not like it," says Roger Boutry, professor of harmony at the Paris Music Conservatory. Boutry should know, since he was commissioned by le Président to compose a new version of the national anthem last June. "I have done a new arrangement," explains Boutry, "taken the drums out, changed the rhythm and the harmony, altered a few notes." While the 1792 version was a stirring march, the revised edition is more like a hymn. After a private audition recently, Giscard pronounced it great. Les citoyens...
Soccer at UConn is the big-time sport where rock music is played during warm-ups, the starting line-ups are introduced on the public address system and the national anthem is played before the game...
...gracefully into the fabric of the whole movie and portrays fascism as a crackbrained aberration that allowed for some moments of ritual absurdity even as it brought forth a kind of cagey, half-comic defiance. One of Amarcord's most memorable episodes concerns the playing of the socialist anthem from atop a church steeple, an incident that is part practical joke and part moral gesture; it implies a kind of human resiliency more moving than any call to arms...
...first it was just a couple of rowdy vendors who broke from the line leading into the stadium. They yelled about how Nilon Brothers, the local concessionaires, had been doing some routine exploiting--not letting the vendors in on time to sell a few rounds before the National Anthem, making them work without a contract since the early days of spring and not giving them a place to change from street clothes to pajama-blue vendor coats...