Word: chantings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...because this is a spoof of the strict and stuffy, the step-by-steppers and the serious-takers of life. Author Dhôtel winds up his ramble with the mocking hawker's chant of Gaspard's papa: "Step up here sir; don't be afraid of life. Don't take one tie; don't take ten, take twenty, and have one to your taste every morning of your life! And hear this, hear this, the most necessary and inevitable purchase of all your days, for the picayune supplementary cost of sixty-five francs, this...
...Premier Habib Bourguiba cried: "There must be no more French troop movements. We are not at war with France, but we are at war with the remnants of colonialism in Tunisia. We start the battle of evacuation today." At the end of his speech the crowd took up the chant "Evacuation! Evacuation...
...minute, four-part symphonic jazz suite by veteran Jazzman Lionel Hampton, 41, entitled King David and premiered under Dimitri Mitropoulos in Manhattan's Town Hall. Inspired and flavored by Hampton's recent tours of Israel ("I visited King David's tomb, and a chant just came to me"), the music tells in a plaintive harp opening of the Old Testament tribulations of the Jews, "blows down the Wailing Wall" in a mighty, jumping blast of brass, moves through a lively vibraphone dance to a deafening, full-orchestra crescendo of triumph...
...will' include schools for young princes, a hospital, zoo, mosque, tennis court, swimming pool and houses for all Saud's wives, concubines, and sons under 16. In the palaces, green neon tubing spells out Koranic mottoes on garden walls, loudspeakers thunderously relay a news broadcast or the chant of a court poet reciting the Koran...
...Moscow trip went off with bands and bunting, and fortnight ago Gomulka returned with a number of small concessions, but no sense of victory. Thousands of Poles, happy and even a little surprised to see him back, jammed the Warsaw station to welcome him, chant and toss bouquets. But to the chanting throng Gomulka would only say: "We went to Moscow and talked to the Soviet leaders as equals, a very important thing for us. We put an end to the great differences between Soviet words and Soviet deeds. Polish-Soviet friendship can now proceed without serious obstacles...