Word: chantings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From their huts and hovels the freshmen converged outside and began their chant, "We want Tarzan; we want Tarzan...." Then, the unmistakable...
...doesn't tell jokes - at least not intentionally. His malapropisms ("I would like to prevent a new singer"), his carny-barker pleas for applause ("Let's hear it for the Lord's Prayer!"), and his pen chant for forgetting names (Singer Polly Bergen is invariably introduced as Bar bara Britton) are part of TV lore. His wincesome looks and quirky mannerisms-such as hunching his shoulders and reeling around like Quasimodo doing the lindy-still bring serious letters from shut-ins commending his courage for appearing despite such an obviously bad case of Bell's palsy...
...chant began, built louder and whirled towards frenzy, leaving the words behind. Just screams, then shrieks. Boundaries dissolved. We were one being pushing the cry of orgasm out from the caverns of the stadium which formed our body. A fearful rage of fulfillment that blasted the selfishness and hate which had made us impotent for so many years...
...National Guard units that put down the 1965 riots-rocked to Watkins' army of teen-agers in a summer-camp project so successful that it may become an annual event. The children are proud of themselves and proud of Watts. Raising three fingers in their own salute, they chant a rousing, bluesy marching song...
...silence. None has observed it as strictly as the Trappist monks who, since their founding in 1098, have made an article of conscience St. Benedict's warning that "those who talk much cannot avoid sin." Trappists have normally been allowed to speak only when intoning the Gregorian chant at High Mass, reciting prayers at five other daily services, and when it is necessary to address superiors...