Word: chanting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reply was to chant in a tone more intense...
...eyed, bony Belgian children had learned enough English last week to chant such rhymes to Tommies and G.I.s, who tossed them chewing gum, hard candy, field rations. But what the youngsters needed was milk and oranges. Some 50% of them had rickets...
...honest ovation of the convention, three minutes of real cheering. Later that same day, after the President's voice had boomed, too loud, through the cluster of amplifiers, the name of Henry Wallace set the galleries afire. From every corner of the Stadium, packed with PACsters, came the chant: "We want Wallace!" At this point the Wallace nomination might have been roared through. Balding Chairman Sam Jackson, try as he might, could not stop the chanting and the noise. Finally, he called for adjournment. The entire Stadium rocked with a chorus of "No!" But Sam Jackson purred smoothly...
Father Finn's musical specialty (the a cappella* choral music of the 16th Century) occupies the middle ground in the three great divisions of liturgical music. The others are: 1) the Gregorian Chant, pure, unharmonized 6th-Century melody, best heard in recent years from the Benedictine monks of Solesmes, France; 2) the "modern," which in liturgical circles includes all church music written since the beginning of the 18th Century - including Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Verdi. Since 1904, when Pope Pius X pronounced on the subject of sacred music in his famed encyclical Motu Proprio, the use of "modern" music...
...Peaceful People. In the 17th Century, Spanish friars and soldiers failed to convert the Lacandones, who still worship Mayan gods. Unlike some of their fierce, Christianized Indian neighbors, the Lacandones seldom fight, almost never commit murder. They moan and chant, burn incense of copal and rubber at the altars of jungle-grown Mayan cities 1,500 years old. In a cave near a blue, sacred lake lives an evil minor god. Two Lacandones, sick with fright, guided Miss Duby there. In the cave was an ancient stone idol; on the entrance were carved hieroglyphics. The last of the Mayans begged...