Word: chantings
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...stations which pick up light and sound waves, translate them into electrical impulses, and carry them to the visual and auditory areas of the brain. In the brain, the impulses are finally translated into the sensations that are recognized as anything from a Grandma Moses painting to the radio-chant of the tobacco auctioneer. Most blindness or deafness and many kinds of paralysis are caused by the failure of the transmission station-the eyes, the ears or the nerves of a crippled limb...
Waving red railroad flares, the marches set fire-to leaf-piles and maple trees to add to the gaiety, and chant the procession onto "Nas-sau Street!" As the crowd, now 1000 strong, juggernauts hand-in-hand down the thoroughfare, the band leader cake-walks and a masquerade tiger polkas with random dates...
Five Yard and Cambridge policemen had their hands full yesterday controlling the onlookers--sometimes over 500 strong. "Way back" shouts of Lieut. Matthew Tooey usually evoked a little more than "push 'em back" chant from the flocking spectators...
...every satirical revue can find two pleasant new ways of ribbing Hollywood: once in a studio scene where a trained gorilla seems, by comparison with the leading lady, a mental Einstein; and once when three stars who proved box-office as slatterns (Olivia de Havilland, Barbara Stanwyck, Jane Wyman) chant their triumphal formula: Be a mess, be a mess, be a mess! And not many revues can offer two full-length parodies that hit at least as many right notes as wrong ones: a musical-comedy Hamlet (with Dick Sykes), which has the good sense to swipe its music...
...most part his scheduled songs were of a concert variety. The best of these was an unaccompanied number called. "The wandering of Old Angus." It is a poem set to a simple and haunting chant by Yeats. This and songs like this are the true ballads of England, Ireland, and Scotland. Mr. Ives does not sing them in his night club repertoire...