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...songs in which the chorus shouts loud hosannas for such things as Rockefeller Center, the subway system, Lord & Taylor (remember the dear dead days when everybody was singing songs about Macy's?), and, of course, Fifth Avenue. "From Dubuque to Westminster Abbey they want the Fifth Avenue Look," they chant. And there's the inevitable song about how lonely a fellow can be in this big town with all the people 'round. This one is followed by a ballet number on the same theme which employs every cliche of dance and plot. It is very well danced by Viola Essen...
Inside Sofia's National Theater, 1,000 delegates rhythmically clapped their hands and set up a monotone chant, "Dimitrov, Stalin, Dimitrov, Sta-lin." Led by Premier Georgi Dimitrov, Bulgarian Communist bigwigs and visitors from 18 foreign Communist parties strode up to the stage. The first congress since 1922 of the Bulgarian Communist Party was called to order. By week's end, it had mapped out a program to fit the line from a Communist Youth song: "In five years, the moon will look down and will not recognize Bulgaria...
Listen to the Boomlay. The 38-piece orchestra included 16 native percussion instruments (with names like the pio, chocalho de metal, reco-reco and matraca) which thumped and clattered and clapped the rhythm. At times the music was full of melody, as melancholy as a native chant. Sometimes it bumped and blared like a carnival band. There were smatterings of dissonance and explosions of jungle jazz; and in one scene, Villa-Lobos had two different songs going at once, as skillfully laced together as a Bach fugue...
Given the kind of progress he meant, Esperantists east of the iron curtain would be expected to chant in unison: "Vivu nia grandega ĉefo Stalin!" Ĉefo means leader; the rest is easy...
...miles long. Then the refugees enter Communist lines. They are inspected by the Communist Children Corps, grim-eyed, incorruptible teen-agers clad in drab uniforms and armed with red-tasseled spears. The juvenile corpsmen reject all wheedling words or hints of bribes. "We Communist youth are honest," they chant. "We don't go for sly words in our liberated territory...