Word: chantings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...faint pulsing rhythm out of time with the music. El Forbes continues to conduct, but the pulse grows louder, more intense--it is obviously the sound of marching feet and many hoarse voices shouting. Suddenly a flank of students rounds the corner of Widener. I can hear their chant now as they bust through the lines of the Glee Club, and enter Widener...
...fringe public" with a unique amalgam of jazz and ethnic music. Last week, in Manhattan's cavernous Village Gate, the Herbie Mann Septet was serving up one of its typical jazz potpourris: gently infectious bossa nova, thumping Afro-Cuban, variations on a North African tribal chant, a Middle Eastern treatment of the theme from Fiddler on the Roof, a brooding interpretation of a classical piano piece writ ten in 1888 by French Composer Erik Satie. Mann also introduced a new gimmick: he played a flute improvisation against a tape recording of eerily exotic, centuries-old gagaku music, played...
While a score of newsmen urged them to "make a little noise--chant something," some eighty students from Harvard, Radcliffe, Brandeis, Tufts, and Simmons set out from the IAB yesterday afternoon, in a march to demonstrate sympathy for the student demonstrate at Berkeley, California...
When Richard Cotton '65, president of the CRIMSON, charged that the "existence of the country is threatened from inside" by Goldwater's candidacy, the anti-Johnson contingent began to chant "We Want Barry." Cotton replied "there used to be 30 Goldwater supporters in Massachusetts, but now they are down to 20. I'm glad to see they're here for their state convention...
When the Queen left the building, 50 separatists set up a new chant-"Le Quebec au Ouebecoia [Quebec for Quebeckers]." Again the police shut them up, and she moved on to her official round of appointments-mostly ceremonial and out of public view. For a war memorial dedication at Quebec's historical old Citadel, only 1,500 of 2,500 invited guests bothered to show up; and no sooner were the formal ceremonies under way than another minor demonstration erupted outside the high grey wall surrounding the Citadel. The next day was spent quietly on shipboard, entertaining special guests...