Word: chantings
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...coffee shops on teeming Rashid Street, some coffee drinkers propped their legs on the café tables to show Kassem the soles of their feet-an Arab gesture of contempt. Demonstrators protesting last month's execution of 13 popular Iraqi army officers (TIME, Sept. 28) even dared to chant: "Allah is great, Kassem is crazy." In the sultry heat of Baghdad, many an old Mideast hand could smell trouble...
...almost surreal quality of this passage, its combination of mystery and sublimity that survives the most dreary Shavian bathos when read with half an ear and half a soul, is turned by its current interpreters into a distracted pandering for tepid chuckles. Mr. Clurman has caused the weird chant to be accompanied by a jolly jig, and Maurice Evans delivers Shotover's curtain line with a phlegmy ingratiation that completely drains it of grandeur...
...Francisco, stockbrokers, merchants and plain workers are getting away from their offices early to go out to Seals Stadium and cheer home the National League-leading Giants. In Chicago, when the American League-leading White Sox get a man aboard, the rhythmical clapping swells into waves, and a chant rolls out of the stands: "Go - go - go!" Much more than two pennant races is fascinating the fans this summer. Teams far down in the standings have somehow taken on a new glamour. In Washington, the Senators are in their customary place at the bottom of the league, but fans...
...departure finally arrived, Ahmed set out on the road through the mountains clogged with thousands of pilgrims ("White, brown, black, yellow people, all moving together"). As they streamed along the road together-a few in cars and buses, some on mules, but most on foot-a steady chant rose in unison from the column: "Labbaika Allahumma labbaika! [Here we are, Lord, here...
...signs warned in Arabic and English: HALT-RESTRICTED AREA. MOSLEMS ONLY PERMITTED BEYOND THIS POINT. ToUghlooking guards armed with clubs and submachine guns inspected passports carefully to weed out any infidel. As the pilgrims rounded the last bend and saw Mecca white and dazzling in the desert sun, their chant burst into a roar: "La illaha ilia Allah, Muhammad rasulu Allah [There is no God but Allah, and Mohammed is the prophet of Allah...