Word: chantings
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...moved with the crowd through the Yard and down past the Busch-Reisinger. The crowd started to run and we ran. "Ho, Ho, Ho, Chi Minh" they chanted and we clapped with the chant. I looked at Flip grinning through his moustache under his felt hat. "This is my first opportunity to be a non-student outside agitator," he said. Win snipped pictures. Howard asked people for cigarette papers...
...Bowie attempted to read a prepared statement warning the demonstrators that they were violating the Faculty's Interim Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities. He was repeatedly drowned out to the chant of "bullshit...
...cerebral white English poetry. This tradition has been handed along from rural preachers to gospel singers to blues singers, to Langston Hughes, who dignified the street language of the blacks and read his poems wherever he could find an audience, even in bars. Today's black poets often chant their poetry in lofts, churches and schools, as if they were still tribal prophets. David Henderson's new book, De Mayor of Harlem, is full of the language of incantation, uniting fragments of history and contemporary impression as if in a visionary state of mind...
...only true pan-Arab force, moving easily from country to country to fight and collecting taxes in the form of payroll deductions from other Palestinians' salaries and manning their own border checkpoints. They are the new heroes of Arab youth: nine-year-olds train with real guns and chant a fedayeen cry, "Oh Zionists, do not think you are safe. Drinking blood is a habit of our men." They are the idols of grown Arabs, who refer affectionately to Arafat as "the old man," to Habash as "the doctor," and to the fedayeen generally as "the boys...
...crowd. largely white middle-class, faltered for a moment and then began to chant "Stay, stay...