Word: chanting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expects to be king. He receives advice from a shadow cabinet of royal councilors, holds audiences in his villa at the Portuguese resort town of Estoril and is attended at all times by a grandee of Spain. Last week the monarchist crowds in Madrid even dared chant a forbidden cry: "Long live King Juan...
...block level, where special "people's courts" are set up to try offenders. In school, students are trained to be good spies as well as good Communists. They learn their arithmetic with "socialist distribution" problems, study geography in terms of "friendly" and "enemy" nations, and still learn to chant praises of what Castro had hoped to create in Latin America: "One, two, three Viet Nams...
...said. "I am prepared to be your guest, but I will not engage in a shouting match with anyone." The measured seriousness of the statement sobered the crowd, and later when a little old lady in the audience smote a bearded heckler with her umbrella, a chant went up: "Harder, harder, hit him again harder...
...hard to believe that Nathan Hale ever cried: "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." For many Americans, who through the years thought that a rather wonderful thing to say, it is even harder to believe that today so many young men chant a new anthem: "Hell, no, we won't go!" Indeed, the phenomenon of bitter antiwar protest reflects profound changes in U.S. attitudes toward patriotism-an emotion once proudly shouted from the rooftops but now seldom even discussed. Is patriotism dead? Outdated? Should it still enter the discussion of grave...
...Troupe's image six CIA agents put on a performance last night at Sanders Theatre that had fake written all over it. It was vulgar, unfunny and at the first act's end a rather uncomfortable pom-pom girl conducted the audience in a chorus of Stokely Carmichael's chant, "Hell no, we won't go." The CIA's plan backfired, though, because the audience was so determined to like the widely-touted Mime Troupe, that it cheered such unmistakably CIA-authored lines as "Would a hippie--a real hippie--go to university where in the middle of the campus...