Word: chants
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Smith College girls in identical outfits of navy-blue linen. They ranked themselves on the steps under the Bell Harry tower in the light of Canterbury's great west window. Then, for an hour, in bell-clear tones, they sang a difficult program of religious music: a Gregorian chant, 13th-century motets, a Bach chorale, U.S. Composer Normand Lockwood's The Bird of Moses and a Negro spiritual, Jesus Walked This Lonely Valley. The Smith College Chamber Singers were on their second annual tour of Europe...
...lithe figure in skin-tight satin, she followed up her folk song with some smoldering blues ("Bury me where he passes by"), switched to a playful chant for "I want to be evil and cheat at jacks," then to the piquant for a French number. Whatever Eartha chose to give them, the crowd paid her back with devout attention. Her nightclub act was proving just as much a hit as her Broadway debut last month in New Faces of 1952, which drew from the New York Times's Brooks Atkinson the fervent report: "Eartha Kitt not only looks incendiary...
Southern oratorical chant. On the stump in Florida, he seemed tired and strained...
...along the line of march, Communist messengers ran up & down relaying orders. At Hibiya Park, one of the parade's non-Communist organizers worriedly pleaded through an improvised megaphone for the marchers to disband and go home. But he was scarcely heard above the steady chant of the Communists. "Yankee, go home!" they screamed, "Yankee, go home!" The Reds whipped nearly 10,000 into a follow-the-leader frenzy and suddenly turned Tokyo's May Day observance into an anti-American riot...
...folk song and square dance fields, has now interested the Dunces in music of the Temperance period. "Some pretty good musicians poured their souls into such stuff," he says, "and it's rarely performed now." One Temperance song the Dunces now use is "Sign Tonight", a deadly serious chant about the pledge to banish rum forever. Saletan thinks college audiences will like that sort of music, if only for its antique interest...