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Word: chantings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fourth the reverse of the second. Most listenable was No. 2, an aria on the Song of Songs, which British Tenor Richard Lewis made sweet and plaintive as an Urdu love song, each syllable quivering through half a dozen notes. Elsewhere, the 70-voice chorus surged in powerful chant, defeating the squeaking, thudding, 50-piece orchestra. When it was over, Stravinsky bowed to the orchestra in the thundering silence and bounced off. Said one festival official: "In a cathedral the audience cannot applaud, but at least they cannot boo, either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Murder in the Cathedral | 9/24/1956 | See Source »

...lifted his dead body and carried it before them. A Polish red-and-white flag, dipped in his blood, was escorted by a proud and pretty Polish girl. Patriotic songs (Poland Is Not Yet Lost) were sung, but above the sound of marching and singing could be heard the chant: "Chleba, chleba, chleba!" (bread, bread, bread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: This Is Our Revolution | 7/9/1956 | See Source »

...after day, Lenshina leads her followers in a chant of her cult...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Lenshina Mulenga | 6/25/1956 | See Source »

...work of the "trackers," human beasts of burden whose yoke is a bamboo rope, who haul the junk from precarious footholds, step by straining step. Chief of the trackers is a Chinese John Henry nicknamed Old Pebble. Old Pebble is a kind of mythic Nature Boy who can chant his weary men through a rough gorge or leap into the treacherous waters to unsnag the towline and break surface with it like a trout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Chastened American | 6/4/1956 | See Source »

...Cave. This week in Rangoon, 500 monks chanted through the last of 1,600 hours of reciting aloud the 14,804 pages of the Tipitakas,† the Buddhist scriptures. They sat in a "cave"-a vast jumble of rough boulders on the outside, and a blue, gold and scarlet auditorium within (capacity: 15,000), which was built by Burma's devout Premier U Nu to house the Sixth Buddhist World Council (TIME, June 7, 1954). The council has been going on for two years in this facsimile of a real cave (where the first council was held...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Buddha's 2,500th | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

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