Word: chant
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Football and bigotry seem to go hand in hand among some West German youth gangs. Fans for Dortmund's Borussia soccer team regularly sing Nazi songs and chant Heil, Hitler! in the stands and terrorize immigrants after matches. At pressent, 37 members of the group are being investigated on charges of racial incitement, theft, assault and breach of the peace. When West Germany played Turkey last November in a qualifying match for this year's European championships, police posted 6,000 men at West Berlin's Olympic stadium. Turkish shops were given special protection after neo-Nazi...
FURTHERMORE, I really don't care. The vast majority of current Harvard undergraduates espouse what can be considered a "progressive" slate of ideals, and should not be condemned simply because they don't chant them or sport them on banners and lapels. The more important question is whether our predecessors have created a more idealistic world. In the past 15 years the arms race has spiraled sharply while the war on poverty has stalled. According to OCS-OCL statistics, as many graduates a decade ago planned to go into law as now, and as few looked to public service. They...
...withdrawal from UNESCO is reminiscent of the sandlot-baseball chant: "If I can't pitch, I won't play...
Once a week between 7:30 and 8:30 a.m., about 30 Americans gather outside the U.S. embassy to wave placards, chant and sing. One popular new song: "Don't rescue me, I want to be free." U.S. Ambassador Anthony Quainton tries to receive every delegation that passes through to "answer their questions...
...visitation by an angel, the receiving of the stigmata), animated by the whole range of Messiaen's musical vocabulary. Strong, sharply defined motifs are derived from such disparate sources as bird song (the composer is a lifelong ornithologist and notated some of his avian themes at Assisi), plain chant and the whole-tone scale. The themes are treated with Messiaen's characteristic rhythmic complexity, but the effect nevertheless is one of almost childlike simplicity...