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...ugly temple, the temple sacrosanct, by us unvisited, unvisitable, so ugly, grim, grotesque, and blah . . . Enough, enough, of all this folly, this cruelty and this superstition-into the white car now and out of town." But what the Mormons had done with the countryside sent him into an ecstatic chant: "And then below the most lovely and enchanted valley of them all-the great valley around Logan . . . the very core and fruit of Canaan-a vast sweet plain of unimaginable riches-loaded with fruit, lusty with cherry orchards, green with its thick and lush fertility and dotted everywhere with...
...charge. Next, the children were cross-questioned to get "charges" against the women. ("Do these foreigners make you study too hard? Do they ever scold you?") At last, they were turned out of their residence and packed off, while former students, patients and friends were assembled under guard to chant: "American imperialists-Asia doesn't want you -Go home...
...millionaire's mansion which has been converted into a Waikiki nightclub, 372 aloha-shirted delegates of the International Longshoremen's & Warehousemen's Union gathered last week to sing the praises of their leader, Harry Bridges, and chant approval of the line he wanted them to follow. Still out on bail after his perjury conviction last year (for denying Communist Party membership), Harry Bridges strode cockily onstage, laid out a 117-page report for his boys to pass. The boys passed it, by standing vote. The report denounced...
...west of Moscow. Against Covarrubias' huge, color-splashed drops, 64 masked dancers tumbled, twisted and stretched. In the final ceremonial dance of thanks, they were reinforced by a corps of musclemen from a local physical education school. With 65 musicians and a chorus of 36 to play and chant Chávez' powerful rhythmic music, the effect was volcanic...
Which has led the Fellows to think this phrase may soon appear in the public prints, and chant quietly to themselves...