Word: chantings
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...irate motorist gunned his car's engine as if to drive through the dancers. Some students climbed atop the car, jumped on it, then led a chant: "One-two-three-four, we don't want your war!" A drunk on a balcony hurled a bottle into the street-and suddenly the mood turned ugly. Students smashed the car's windows, set fires in trash cans, began to bash storefronts. Police were called. Kent Mayor LeRoy Satrom had ordered a curfew, but few students were aware of it. Police stormed into bars after midnight, turning up the lights...
Mothers want to reform him. Schoolboys strive to emulate him. And girls by the thousands dreamily chant his name whenever he appears on the playing field. Another Joe Namath? Not at all. George Best is the name, and his fans hail him as the most glamorous, most electrifying soccer player ever to come out of the British Isles. Says Danny Blanchflower, a onetime soccer great in his own right: "Best's movements are quick, light, balletic. He is a master of control and manipulation. And with it all, there is his utter disregard for danger...
...activities just won't accomplish anything. Each rally attracts less attention than the one before. And people are tired of hearing the same old speeches. The only things that now hold their attention are good music and derisions of Nixon ("Fuck Richard Nixon" was the day's most popular chant). It's nice to get people together, and I think November's protest in Washington was of some tactical value, but there's no way they'll end the war. At the other extreme, trashing and similar strategies seem to hurt the cause more than help it. Bland old liberal...
...differences, however, are greater than the similarities. The Play of Daniel is an anonymous creation, with roots in folksong and in ecclesiastical chant. It is alternately solemn and joyous, with a directness that is rare in music of any period. The format of the work is more formal than the kind of drama which we are accustomed to. Daniel is a simple re-telling of the Biblical narrative, and there is no more concern for unity of time and place or for psychological realism than in the original tale. The verses of the text are set to unchangingly strophic music...
...fresh new hate in them, a bitterness hurled indiscriminately at the world around them. At one corner a black cop, patient but looking terribly weary, stood with his fellow officers holding back the crowd while the traffic went through. The front line of protesters was shouting the old chant "1-2-3-4-we don't want your -- war"; one girl-she could not have been more than 15-was taking particular delight in shrieking the obscene adjective loudly at the cop. The word was hardly new, but her strangely misdirected rage was. It was surely...