Word: chanting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...white beatniks, crowded in near the speakers' platform. When the introductions began, they shouted "Freedom Now" and "Jim Crow Must Go." Police moved in to shove them back, knocked several down. Others dropped limp to the ground and officers dragged them away. As the President spoke, the chant continued. His message was well suited to the unseemly scene...
...riot began slowly. Outside the two embassies, Cambodian police and government officials stood idly by as 10,000 hooligans were marshaled into position by a Ministry of Information soundtruck, which led the chant: "Yankee Go Home." Then, under a barrage of rocks and bricks, the rioters broke through police lines and stormed the U.S. embassy. They overturned and burned cars, tore down the U.S. flag, replaced it with the Cambodian emblem. As embassy personnel huddled behind tear-gas-armed Marine guards on the third floor, the demonstrators ransacked ground-floor offices, destroying papers and smashing equipment. At the British embassy...
...gonna say now, huh? Huh? Who's the greatest?" "Cassius," came the faint reply-too faint to satisfy the new champ. "Let's really hear it!" he hollered. "Who's the greatest? I'll give you one more chance: Who's the greatest?" The chant was loud and clear. "You, Cassius, you. You're the greatest...
What captured Sanders was an evening of Russian songs sung with great dash, accuracy, and humor under the direction of Denis Mickiewiez. The chorus sang liturgical music, including a magnificent chant from the Kievo-Pechersky Monastery. It sang selections from Russian operas, familiar folk tunes (Metelitsa, Kalinka) and unfamiliar folk tunes. Indeed, it seemd as if the chorus could do anything. Its tenors ascended with assurance and clarity to the C above middle C; its basses descended at least to the C below the staff. The great variety in voice timbres added interest to the solos, sung by nearly...
...Washington, the President's pen chant for popping into unexpected places left Hal Holbrook, Broadway's vet eran and highly skilled impersonator of Mark Twain, sounding more like Chico Marx. Holbrook was performing for Lady Bird and Lynda Bird Johnson and a group of visiting college stu dents in the White House East Room when the President burst in, rushed up to the platform, grasped the actor's hand and said: "I always wanted to meet Mark Twain." Almost speech less, Holbrook forgot several subsequent lines, blew others, and later admitted: "I was really frightened." Among...