Word: chantings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thousand one-night stands and red-lit neon holes from San Diego to Baltimore. In a Beat as Big as a bass-fiddle, tight-drum Hot America. In the dull roar and muted chant of the Juke Box Generation. We shall survive--and prosper. Man, you heard it here...
...game continues in silence. It seems to be played better in the dark, and the Undergraduate Athletic Committee cooperates by dimming the lights on the bridge at 5:45. The players then chant the Sputnikchant, which sounds something like "Doyouseeityet...
Over the intricate rhythms of drums hovered the fluid notes of a single bamboo flute and the wailng chant of a solo male voice. Against a plain black backdrop swirled brilliantly costumed dancers, unfolding exotic tales of lust and vengeance, ecstasy and evil. The occasion: the Broadway opening, prior to a U.S. tour, of the Indian dance group headed by Shanta Rao (rhymes with...
Inside, a group of girls began to chant: "We don't want her/ You can have her/ She's too black for me." But in the auditorium, a white girl sat down beside her with comforting words: "Don't worry. Everything's going to be all right." Recalled Dorothy later: "She said she hoped we'd be in the same class-and we are." And when Dorothy was called to the front for her room assignment, white girls sat on either side of her. Soon they were talking and laughing together...
...chapel, the delegates sang the Gregorian chant Veni Creator Spiritus (some priestly voices were off key; the Jesuits have never been famed for their singing), then briskly moved to a large, barnlike room and took their seats on plain wooden benches facing writing desks. From a raised table they were greeted-in Latin, the order's normal business language -by alabaster-pale, 67-year-old Jean-Baptiste Janssens, 27th Superior General of the Society of Jesus, also known (like his predecessors) as "the Black Pope...