Word: chantings
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...trouble that I had recognized in my room, by myself, had now manifested itself, times 5637. The crowd began to chant: "Who's Nick Wurf...
...large hammer-and-sickle was set ablaze on a nearby hillside. The Pope was never endangered, but the guerrillas had unintentionally summarized the point of his antiterrorist message. In Lima, when the Pope greeted an informal crowd that had gathered in a blacked-out street, a good-natured chant went up: "John Paul is light...
Ginsberg: Chanting more than music. Pound used to say "pay attention to the tone meaning of the vowels." In Greek you have the pitch. That's why people don't know how to chant Home: anymore because the oral tradition has been lost. And they have to figure it out from the diacritical marks. If you become sensitized to the pitch of the vowels you will begin to appreciate the consonants and bite them like Bob Dylan does, or as any great singer does. You also savor the vowels as physical marbles in your month and become more interested...
...abstract, marquee characters. Indeed, the whole Goetz phenomenon is life gone to the movies. The tabloids call the hero the Death Wish vigilante. The bad guys are out of A Clockwork Orange. The subway set is borrowed from Escape from New York. And now the audience picks up the chant from Network, "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more...
...typical performance, it was not unusual to hear an impeccably played piano passage which drew heavily on Liszt, followed by a chant to the goddess Yemaya, followed by an extended conga solo, which in turn would be followed by a blues tune based on Mozart--all unmistakably Irakere...