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There was also the repeated chant "Perón está presente," a rephrasing of the old cry that arose 22 years ago, after the death of Evita, Perón's popular second wife, when devoted Peronists insisted that she was still with them...
Brekekekex ko-äx ko-äx! As the famed croaking chant, the croaking chorus of the frogs in Aristophanes' comedy, sounds over Yale's Payne-Whitney Gym pool, it signifies that 21 young Yalies and New Haven townies skimpily clad in green fishnet tights are hitting the water. They fan out to the center of the pool and in a Busby Berkeley pinwheel formation circle the battered dinghy in which a wizened, whiskered Charon (Charles Levin) is poling across this Ivy League Styx. It is a moment of splashing good humor in this aquatic spoof...
...Southeast African ritual chant, from Max Gluckmann's Custom and Conflict in Africa...
...CHANT THE Swazi tribespeople, dancing, circling, shaking in the magic glow of age-old ritual fires. In the center stand the king, the queens, the elders and the sub-chieftans--all the ranking leaders of the tribe--humbled and ridiculed by the insults of the people. A young prince steps forward, his head held high, his shield and spear in hand: "Follow me," he beckons to the people, "this evil king betrays his sacred trust." More princes and military captains mimic his example, defiling the name of the monarch and calling the people to rebellion. Then, remarkably, these same slanderers...
...band struck up the B.U. chant, and the mob voiced its opinion of that school with a resounding and unanimous "Screw B.U." at the top of its collective lungs. The fans pounded on the ceiling, windows and whatever else was handy at the time, in tune to the chants and various fight songs...