Word: chantings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dainty Step. In Algiers, a crowd of European demonstrators marched down the Rue d'Isly, defiantly chorusing the stirring S.A.O. anthem, Chant des Afri cains. Facing them was a line of 30 young, battle-weary French soldiers, ten of them Moslems. Shots rang out from a corner balcony, and a soldier dropped to the street. Instantly, the others emptied their machine pistols at the marchers...
...strongly against Soviet resumption of nuclear tests last fall or against India's cynical grab of Goa. Practically, very few of them "have even one man, much less an adequate staff, whose whole time and preoccupation are applied to [disarmament] . . . Those who sit on the sideline and merely chant 'general and complete disarmament without putting their minds to mastering the difficulties of the problem [do not] make much of a contribution...
...Profundis,' sixth of a set of seven penitential psalms, displayed the Glee Club more to advantage. Kapellmeister di Lasso began the set of psalms under commission from Duke Albert of Bavaria in 1563. He based the sixth psalm on a cantus firmus (chant melody) which recurs in each movement of the piece. The Radcliffe Society had consistent trouble making its entrances, but the chorus, though occasionally bottom-heavy, preserved the viscous fluidity of Lasso's style. The men's chorus, by the way, has fine basses, and exploits them well; but sometimes instead of stabilizing they sink the ship...
...events smashed this intellectual trade union: 1) a beery, gusty, word-wildered Welshman named Dylan Thomas and 2) World War II. Poet Thomas, with his golden rain of words and his great brass gong of a voice, reminded poetry of its origins in ritual and chant. And the war forced poets to face political, social and spiritual realities. At first, the horror of it all seemed to numb them; the war itself produced no genuinely great poetry in English. But such poets as Karl Shapiro, Randall Jarrell, Richard Eberhart and Britain's Henry Treece were moved to describe their...
More than that, she managed to transform songs about Negroes into songs about the human condition. "No Room at the Hotel," for example, looked at first to be the archtypical protest chant, but ordinary Freedom Riders fare would dissolve under comparison. In one of her most exciting solos, "I'm On My Way," she sang: "We've had a hard journey, but we're on our way." It was a statement of progress...