Word: chants
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chant. In Britain last week Bim and Bom (or B. & K.) doggedly labored at their act, even though their audiences were cool. At Oxford some 5,000 people, mostly students, broke police lines to crowd around them booing and chanting: "Poor old Joe, poor old Joe!" (to the tune of Stephen Foster's Old Black Joe). Bulganin stood up smiling and raising his arms like a boxer acknowledging applause, signed autographs and patted student cheeks. In New College quadrangle, students set off a huge firecracker which made B. & K. jump, led Bulganin to quip: "Are they making an atomic...
Charles Munch embarrasses Brattle Street again as the BSO languishes in Honneger's Third and "Chant de joie" this week. To appease, Mozart and Handel. At 8:30 p.m. today...
...through the South last week, the embarrassing chant of If Jesus Came to Your House sounded from phonographs. Victor, Decca and Capitol have each made recordings of the song in cooperation with three music publishers. None of the publishers know who wrote the original. It is "showing action" so far only in the South and Southwest, the market for which it was pointed. But such things have been known to spread, and soon lumbermen in jackboots, starlets in cashmere sweaters, and briefcase-toters in high-buttoned charcoal grey may all be able to wince...
...with Ed Murrow's filmed 1½-hour See It Now, devoted to Arab-Israeli tensions. The report from Egypt, handled by Howard K. Smith, was particularly chilling as Arab after Arab stepped up to blame the U.S. for all the troubles in the Middle East and to chant fanatically that the only solution was war with Israel. Israeli citizens and leaders were a good deal more skillful than the Arabs in creating an air of reasonableness and common sense but were equally deaf to any suggestion of significant border changes or concessions...
...word for the delegates: "Could you have eaten in Washington restaurants under a Democratic Administration? Could you have even gathered in this fine hotel?" Scott asked sardonically: "When is Mr. Butler's appointment with Senator Eastland?" When Butler got up to reply, the delegates took up a mocking chant: "Eastland, Eastland, Eastland...