Word: chant
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...rest of the Gopher chant was never uttered, though, as Terrier Steve Thornton rebounded home a loose puck at the 18:43 mark to put BU up 3-0, and end the game for all practical purposes. "With this crowd it was nice to get up early and stay up for a while," BU coach Jack Parker said...
...have been superseded by pious folk-rock in the Roman Catholic churches that gave it birth, but the ethereal, sinuous style of monophonic singing known as Gregorian chant is still alive and well, thank you. In the year's biggest musical surprise, a recording of Gregorian melodies sung by Benedictine monks from the abbey of Santo Domingo de Silos in Spain has suddenly become a monster hit. Issued, appropriately enough, by Angel, Chant has sold more than 220,000 copies in its first two weeks of release. The album is already No. 1 on the classical charts as well...
Gregorian -- more properly known as plainchant or plainsong -- first surfaced as a popular phenomenon last year in Spain, where a two-disc version of Chant sold 325,000 copies in four months. The Benedictines' run-down 8th century abbey in northern Spain became a Mecca for music lovers, who came in throngs to hear the monks chant their communal prayers seven times a day. All this attention has flummoxed the abbey's 36 residents. "You have to understand," said one, "we are not rock stars...
While there is an old crew saying about ergometers not winning races, Voldins has much to be optimistic about. Harvard returns five oarsmen--Voldins, Adam Holland, Colin Chant, Jay Hammond and Nick Peterson--from last year's formidable varsity eight. Voldins, Holland and much-improved Oliver Rando are all vying for spots on the U.S. National Team...
...side by side on South Africa's road to democracy. Nelson Mandela wants to focus attention on the better life to come, "the historic moment when all South Africans, blacks and whites, will work together to build a new country." But while joyous crowds of African National Congress supporters chant and cheer at his every appearance, Afrikaner Resistance Movement leader Eugene Terreblanche warns of trouble to come if whites are not given their own state. Last week a visibly angry Mandela repeatedly interrupted his upbeat campaign speeches to warn that he would match violence with violence if right-wing sabotage...