Word: chanting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...disciples of Rumi, who were ending their first tour of North America to promote Turkish culture, performed their 700-year-old ritual at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Nine dervishes, solemn in long black capes and tall cylindrical hats, entered the hall led by a sheik. Beckoned by the chant of a blind singer and the melancholy solo of a reed flute, they threw off their voluminous black cloaks, symbols of the tomb that they believe encases the soul. Slowly and gracefully they began to revolve, their long white skirts billowing into circles. Gradually they extended their arms, one palm...
...zonah! Ben zonah!" The chant at the soccer match between Tel Aviv Hapoel and Jerusalem Hapoel was not a cheer for the home team but an angry denunciation of the referees. Though the epithet means "Son of a whore!" in Hebrew, the referees were more relieved than offended; after all, the abuse was merely verbal...
...first cut on John Simon's Album typifies his inventiveness: "The Song of the Elves" asserts the stature of playful but proud elves whose joy, warmth, and earthiness mocks the war-tom world of people. "Faiderol," they chant. "Elves are tell." "Nobody knows" and "Rain Song" are as lonely as the first song is light. "Don't Forget what I Told You" offers a strange blend of romance and cynicism balancing the outright fun of "Motorcycle Man" or of "Railroad Train Runnin' Up My Back." While weaving his voice in and out among tracks of piano and backup instruments. Simon...
They shared an elaborate greeting, a rapid meeting of hands, fists and elbows and a whispered chant in the ear, and a common suffering-a lack of jobs and opportunity. Barry Wright, president of the Concerned Veterans from Viet Nam, had met with some of those charged and says that they were bitter because "they couldn't get decent jobs. The way the whole society had turned an about-face just turned them cold. Some people can deal with it and keep on scufflin' every day. But some people it hurts, it affects them." At the Concerned Veterans...
...Wills does not believe that the pre-conciliar church had the vitality to survive as it was much longer. His description of certain Catholic intellectuals of the '50s-with their enthusiasm for Merton and monasticism, Gregorian chant and the social encyclicals of the Popes-is witty but a bit condescending. As for the '60s, Teilhard de Chardin's cloudy, evolutionary mysticism gets no more praise than Pope John. Wills argues that both men did not fully see the consequences when they attempted to generalize or make programs from their private convictions...