Word: anthems
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...life a little more comfortable, however, the government is planning to let in its first tourists-in moderation of course. Up to now, Bhutan's chief money earner abroad has been the sale of its colorful postage stamps, some of which are miniature LPs with the Bhutanese national anthem recorded on them...
...nearly 150 years, Australia has been trying out-and rejecting-proposed national anthems. Among candidates of the distant past have been such forgettables as the Anthem on Queensland, The Cross and the Great White Star, Fling Out the Flag and Ave Australia. Some Aussies have jokingly suggested that the country should adopt as its national song The Australaise, a down-to-earth, Down Under version of the Marseillaise that is sung to the tune of Onward, Christian Soldiers. These are the words (and the blanks can be filled in according to taste and vocabulary...
...first acts as Prime Minister was to begin still another search for a new song more befitting "our national aspirations." Although the government offered a prize of $14,850 to the winner, none of the thousands of entries was thought worthy of a kangaroo lullaby, let alone a national anthem. In desperation, the government turned to three golden oldies: Song...
Australia, Advance Australia Fair and Waltzing Matilda (an uplifting dirge about the suicide of a sheep rustler). A choice was made by a poll (in which one-half of 1% of the population was selected to represent the nation as a whole). Advance Australia Fair was chosen as the anthem by a bare majority...
...typical reaction, the Melbourne Herald said: "All together now, wince." Annoyed by the criticism, a spokesman for the Prime Minister stiffly replied that it was the tune that counted and the words hardly mattered. But they clearly do matter to many Australians, and the choice of the new anthem seemed to unleash the country's lyrical genius. One sardonic proposal, set to the tune of My Old Man's a Dustman, came from Phillip Adams, who writes a satirical column for a Melbourne paper...