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Last week the Marine Corps reeled under a humiliating attack that purpled faces from Quantico to Korea. Reason for all the commotion: an article in Cavalier, a corpuscular magazine with a large barracksroom circulation, that made the Marines' Hymn and many of the corps' proudest boasts sound like the Parade of the Wooden Soldiers. To compound the horror, the author was a certified leatherneck with 26 years' service in the corps, retired Brigadier General William B. McKean...
...marines did fight in the halls of Montezuma- and on the shores of Tripoli, but not as impressively as the Marines' Hymn implies. Eight marines helped 150 Greeks and Arabs capture the fortress city of Tripoli from the Barbary pirates in 1804. In the battle for the castle at Chapultepec in 1847, fewer than 200 of Winfield Scott's 7,200 troops were marines. The actual heroes of Chapultepec, moreover, were the Mexican boy cadets, Los Niños Heroes, who, with a small number of regular troops, forced the gringos to retreat three times in 24 hours...
...sometimes shabby appearacne of the picket lines and the tattered condition of some of the home-made signs, the demonstraters maintained a high level of enthusiasm. They sang steadily through the two and a half hour demonstration, creating an old-time revivalist atmosphere. Favorite selections included "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," "We Shall overpower," and Pete Seeger's "This Land is Your Land...
...irreverent touch that Roman Catholic Poulenc himself strives for in many of his religious works. Last week the Boston Symphony introduced U.S. audiences to the latest and perhaps most contrast-filled of Poulenc's compositions-his Gloria, in which he says he tried "to write a joyous hymn to the glory...
...migrants are protected by Captain Sutter, and that night in his barn the woman gives birth to a boy. At dawn the sunlight forms a cross in the stable, and the golddiggers' chorus chants: "We have been fools, we have been fools," then concludes in a closing hymn, "Love turns...