Word: chanting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shrugging off a warning from the Ministry of Justice that they were committing a crime by electing and transferring bishops, the Assembly last week kept on sending them off to churches to be consecrated in affluent new jobs. The attendant congregations, instead of greeting the prelates with the liturgical chant of "Worthy, worthy," shouted "Unworthy! Unworthy!" and exchanged kicks and blows with the bishops' partisans...
...problem is that Michael Cacoyannis has unforgiveably tried to wring emotion from a stone-dry script, presumably to titillate the crowd in the Broadway bleachers. In imitation of Luther, or perhaps even The Sound of Music, Cacoyannis punctuates the play with obnoxious Gregorian chant. His minor characters, whom Whiting wisely kept undeveloped to preserve focus, become caricature roles of great distraction. Cacoyannis also revives The Trojan Woman by turning the Ursuline Nuns into a Greek chorus...
...fourth session last week, more than 1,500 Roman Catholic prelates assembled for a march of penance from the Church of the Holy Cross to the Basilica of St. John Lateran, half a mile away. As the chill autumnal dusk darkened the Roman sky, a priest began to chant the ancient litany; from the throats of thousands of cardinals, bishops, priests and laymen came back the droning, prayerful response: "Pardon us, O Lord." At the rear of the procession, beneath a scarlet and gold baldacchino, walked Pope Paul VI dressed in red cope and carrying a crucifix in which were...
...Pakistan and India clawed at each other with U.S. weapons and planes that had been given them for the express purpose of opposing Communist aggression. The U.S. wanted only to be friends with both powers, but was roundly denounced by each. Along Karachi streets, Americans heard the old, familiar chant: "Yankee, go home!" In India, two German tourists were beaten by a mob that thought they were Americans. Washington held only one trump card and promptly used it: all military supplies to both countries were suspended. Pakistan would be the first to feel the pinch since it is wholly dependent...
...Brattle, offered a par explanation last night when he compared the Bogart films to Greek tragedies. "The audience is a kind of chorus," he pointed out. "The dialogue is way ahead of its time: it doesn't age." Consequently, people keep returning to see the same films and "chant the lines along with the actors," Harvey said...