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Three hours later, after many and a few songs, Pete Seeger the situation; the symbolism, those who cared, was reversed. dismay at a society where controlled machines descrate even Star Spangled Banner he request that the audience stand and, without companiment, sing the anthem's verse. "Think particularly," he "of the last lines: 'O say does that Spangled Banner still wave o'er land of the free and the home of brave." For a few minutes this dressed man, his seasick-green and red socks eminently his left hand moving up and down to control the collective voice...

Author: By Paul S. Cowan, | Title: In Boston | 10/7/1960 | See Source »

...moments, at the beginning of last Saturday's SANE rally even steeped in the tradition of American meetings for social protest must be wondered what was happening. A broken-down organ played a wavering barely recognizable version of Star Spangled Banner. Instead of at attention, members of the at the Boston Arena turned each other, snickered, and a few sat down...

Author: By Paul S. Cowan, | Title: In Boston | 10/7/1960 | See Source »

...misfortune must have seem ominous. A great many people inside the Arena, were prone to any efforts at disarmament with conciliations to the Soviet Union; and a purblind witch-hunter, at uncovering symbols as was as likely to head the same into an off-key version of the Spangled Banner as he would continuing partnership with the Amendment...

Author: By Paul S. Cowan, | Title: In Boston | 10/7/1960 | See Source »

...from mutterers in Cambridge coffee houses, but even nickels and dimes should prove sufficient to buy padlocks for the doors of the Loeb Drama Center. Slogans too will play their part. Where President Pusey has said "Build Up," the Program's cry must be "Tear Down," and under a banner flying those words wreckers will assault the Leverett Towers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Modest Proposal | 10/3/1960 | See Source »

...among dissident far-left extremists of President Romulo Betancourt's Democratic Action (AD) and among leaders of the Republican Democratic Union (URD). Although a member of Betancourt's three-party coalition, URD is opportunistically trying to build up support for future elections by hoisting Castro's banner. URD's most vociferous Castro supporter has been Betancourt's Foreign Minister, Ignacio Luis Arcaya...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: Plagued by Castro | 9/19/1960 | See Source »

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