Word: anthems
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Germans have already impressively demonstrated their sports muscle. They finished third behind the U.S. and Russia at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico, the first time they had been allowed to field a team separate from West Germany's (although they were denied their own flag, emblem and anthem). This year at Munich, East Germany will have all the privileges of a full-fledged team. Its national anthem-Auferstanden aus Rui-nen-could conceivably salute as many victories as The Star-Spangled Banner or Gitnn Sovietskogo Soyuza. Last summer, in fact, the steadily improving East Germans bested the rest...
Kahn presents a number of other middle-aged ex-Dodgers in formula pieces that will appeal mainly to those who sang the national anthem along with Gladys Goodding and lost interest in the Dodgers after they went to Los Angeles to become ballplayers to the stars. He also touches a lot of other bases, sentimentalizing about his newspaper days, describing the selection of his father's coffin, visiting the apartment buildings where cozy Ebbets Field once stood. The tone throughout is unashamedly elegiac, though not totally uncalculated. Kahn's love and respect for his subjects provide a sensitive...
...alike. Somewhere between 3,000 and 15,000 Catholics had gathered in Londonderry, where British troops in 1969 were first called in to protect Catholics from rioting Protestants. Last week, as the demonstrators moved down William Street toward the Bogside, they sang, among other songs, We Shall Overcome, the anthem of U.S. civil rights marches during the '60s. In burned-out buildings and on nearby rooftops along the route, British soldiers watched and waited...
...present have been seated by the ushers, the head proctor reads the general rules and introduces the assistant proctors, dressed in black and white striped shirts, who then distribute the exam papers. The proctor again addresses the assemblage: "Ladies and gentlemen, will you please rise and sing our national anthem." When the applause and cheers at the conclusion of the song have subsided and a quiet anticipation has settled over the crowd, the proctor blows his whistle to start the clock and the writing...
...attention a few weeks ago when Marquette played South Carolina in a nationally-televised match-up of two of the nation's top teams. As tempers flared in the close game, a fist fight broke out between players and fans. Fortunately, someone had the intelligence to play the national anthem over the loudspeaker and quell the anger...