Word: chanting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gloria" has interweaving melody lines in the vein of a Gregorian chant, and "Scarlet" has an appealing marching rhythm. But U2 simply superimposes these effects on the music when they should give the changes precedence. The Dublin sound was fresh and new but rapidly stagnating. Though U2 gained a foothold in the American market by accenting their insular origin, they must develop something beyond their formula to hold onto their popularity. Otherwise they will suffer the fate of ephemeral bands like the Knack and glide right back into obscurity...
...Pope is far from alone among church leaders. Lutheran, Calvinist and Roman Catholic clergy were among the early organizers of Europe's widespread antinuclear movement. In the U.S. a growing number of pastors and prelates are taking up the chant. The movement is not limited to predictable leftist or pacifist church circles; it has entered the religious mainstream. This month the 37 regional executives of the American Baptist Churches called the very existence of nuclear weapons, much less willingness to use them, "a direct affront to our Christian beliefs." The bishops of the United Methodist Church proclaimed in November...
...that only the threat of American deaths will arouse American concern; El Salvador seems a case in point. Four dead Yankee Catholics and everyone noticed. "Military advisers," a phrase that sounded like Vietnam, and everyone noticed. "No Draft, No War, U.S. Out of El Salvador" was the most popular chant during Harvard's mid-March demonstration, perhaps for more than its pleasing rhyme scheme...
...march down a corridor of the Sheraton Washington Hotel led by Democratic Congressman Claude Pepper, 81, of Florida to the doors of the Economics Committee, which was considering recommendations for revising the Social Security system. While Pepper stepped aside to negotiate a compromise, hundred of supporters stayed to chant and sing We Shall Overcome. The compromise was as inconclusive as much of the rest of the conference: it opposed any reduction in current Social Security benefits, but failed to define whether a change in the complicated formulas would constitute a reduction; it opposed cutbacks for future recipients, but may have...
...third Ali-Frazier fight, where all the good people wanted Ali to win and all the bad people rooted for Frazier. It was that simple. There was more noise in that building than I had ever heard before, or have ever heard since. Twenty thousand sang the chant in the Garden that night--"Ali, Ali, Ali"--and they were joined by at least 20 million more around the world...