Word: chants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chant, a restless fall breeze challenged her passivity. It begins to wander through her mind like the mourning dove's constant sad cry, its words escaping her memory. She is stirred to reach for them, her anxious searching fingers discovering only seeping sand. The canals in her mind; those channels of memory and meaning have failed here completely. Everything is suddenly flooding. A pounding chant, undammed. Where's home? Where's home...
...Sioux spiritual leader named Leonard Crow Dog struck up a chant in the Lakota language. As each warrior passed by, he blessed him and painted a slash or a circle of red powder under the left eye. Each warrior then stepped into a white tepee, making a holy sign over the bleached skull of a buffalo head...
...Publicity Director Deans Lord admits that Derek Bok, Henry Kissinger and Patrick Moynihan were her creation. "We needed some cheap notoriety," Lord sobs. "Not every experiment is a successful one." In an ecumenical Christmas Eve gesture, President Bok and Christopher Jencks hold a joint press conference and in union chant: "We forgive those who trespass against Us. For Ours is the Power and the Kingdom and the Glory, for ever and ever, in Heaven as it is on Earth, Amen...
...will be merely an armed truce rather than a period of genuinely relaxed tensions. For those caught inside the East-bloc borders it will also be a period of repression and pretense. TIME'S Strobe Talbott talked to one East-bloc professor and author, who shrugged: "We have to chant Marxist-Leninist slogans because otherwise our leaders would get worried that the system that gives them their power is in danger. And if they begin to worry seriously that detente means an end to their own power, they'll never go ahead with all the treaties and agreements [with...
...substantial contingent which has come to boo Harrison. If Harvard has a bad season this year, fans similar to those who went to the New York Giants' football games in the middle 1960s to sing "Goodbye Allie" and who went to Philadelphia Eagle games to the late 1960s to chant "Joe Must Go might up to haunt Harrison...