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...convention's impact on New York, the city can enter the event as a distinct plus on the image ledger. On the final night of the convention, Texas delegates held up cards spelling out TEXAS THANKS NEW YORK CITY, and the rest of the crowd began a chant that must have been music to Mayor Abe Beame's ears: "We love New York, we love New York...
...flocked to free plays, movies, bicycle races, soccer, basketball and hockey matches, and elected a Miss Seychelles. When the Union Jack is hauled down from a mast in Victoria Stadium this week and replaced by the new red, white and blue flag of the Seychelles Republic, the celebrants will chant the new national anthem in French and in English: "Seychellois both staunch and true/ the nation now has need...
...where time cost too much and was hard to arrange), each fresh audience would hear it as largely new, and could smile or sneer in resignation at the snippets it already knew−Carter's longing for a Government as good as the American people, Reagan's chant that the canal is ours, Ford's conviction that a Government big enough to run things is a Government big enough to threaten us. These became applause lines just as carefully prepared and as essentially empty as Joe Penner's "Wanna buy a duck?" once was. Only occasionally...
Five long seconds later, after Frank Urso had whipped to ball to midfielder Greg Rump for the tying goal, the chant had faded. A chastened Cornell crowd retreated to the track in front of the stands, embarrassed by their premature and fortunately penultimate celebration, and waited two more overtime periods before pouring onto the field for the last time...
...high altars gave way to simple tables; members of what had once jokingly been called "the church of silence" were urged to sing hymns - and often Protestant ones at that (a familiar favorite these days: Luther's A Mighty Fortress Is Our God). Instead of incense and plain chant, parish churches now offered folk Masses, Masses with "sacred dancing," mixed-media Masses. Comedian Bob Newhart, a practicing Catholic usually comfortable with change, ruefully recalls the "wakko wakko wakko " sound of a Moog Mass he once attended. "The priest said, 'Now let us all join together in the prayer...