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...Chiang Kai-shek was to observe his 84th birthday, and so the presidential office building in Taipei was decorated with pine trees and long noodles, both symbols of longevity. An army chorus of 10,000 men gathered to sing Long Live the President. Some 20,000 others prepared to chant the same message from the mountains of southern Taiwan...
...permanence, even homespun vulgarity, has a stabilizing effect. So it is momentarily comforting to go home again and rediscover this preposterous adobe Oz, where benevolent witches primp their flocks with hot combs, and happy little people fly giddily about on magic Caterpillars and Black Widows, and raspy wizards chant tall, dark tales of the Alligator Lady who crawls on her belly like a reptile. Ah, yes, the State Fair of Texas still has the power to charm, because the more it changes, the more it stays the same. Or, like they say down home, plus ça change, ole buddy...
...early 1950s the sales were held in the open air under a tent, the bidders sat on hard wooden chairs, and the average price for a yearling was closer to $5,000. The auctioneer's chant was only occasionally interrupted by Announcer Humphrey Finney. Eyeglasses perched precariously at the end of his nose, he chastised the audience in thick British accents: "Now, ladies and gentlemen, we're way too low on this filly. She's out of a stakes-winning mare by a half brother to the winner of the St. Leger." Then the auctioneer would continue...
...periodic visits to Tattile and Mamile in Venice, Mary watched Pound making poetry: "His silence was suspense, a joyous sense of expectation, until he broke into a kind of chant that sometimes went on for hours." Pound was often severe with Mary. When she was still quite small, he drafted an elaborate table of "Laws for Maria." Item: "If she suffers, it is her own fault for not understanding the universe." But on the whole, he was a really nice if distant dad. He bought the child a small flock of sheep, and became her silent partner in a tiny...
Tension crackled around the auditorium like electricity when the speakers walked in SDS began a rhythmic chant, U. S. OUT OF VIETNAM, BUTCHERS OUT OF HARVARD. J. Lawrence McCarty, an official of the American Conservative Party serving as moderator for the Teach-in, attempted to introduce the first speaker. After it had become plain that he was not being heard, Archibald Cox '34, Harvard's troubleshooter, appeared from the rear of the stage, walked to the rostrum, and begged the crowd to quiet down. Near tears as he spoke, he asked the disrupters to "answer what is said here with...