Word: sung
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Carpet. Though Kosygin had planned to fly home directly from Peking, he suddenly changed his plans and headed for North Korea-a place no Soviet Premier had ever visited before. Despite the short notice, North Korea's Boss Kim II Sung rolled out the Red carpet for his unexpected guest: frenzied crowds waving Soviet flags roared "Mansei! [May you live 10,000 years]" as Kosygin arrived at Pyongyang airport. Kim, a Peking-lining Stalinist who only a month ago rudely rejected an invitation to Moscow, embraced Aleksei warmly. "We consider amity and unity between our two nations most valuable...
Mihajlov, who gleaned his facts from documents and interviews during a two-month stay in the Soviet Union last summer, was surprised to find Russians reminiscing openly about the camps. He reported that "concentration camp songs" have become a kind of Russian folk music, and are recklessly sung by Soviet youth despite the regime's obvious disapproval...
...assassination of a German diplomat by a Jewish boy in 1938, poignantly plumbs the agonies of the persecuted. What gives the theme a wider, painfully topical relevance is Tippett's skillful weaving into the score of five Negro spirituals, after the style of a Bach chorale, that were sung last week by the magnificent, 232-voice Philharmonic chorus. Tippett, a lean, Lincolnesque figure who looks half his threescore years on the podium, seemed to inspire rather than instruct the ensemble in his brooding, hauntingly compassionate music...
...Harvard, Pickett plans to start Howie Henjyoji at 123, Bing Sung at 130, Tom Gilmore at 137, Howie Durfee at 147, Ed Franquemont at 157, Jeff Grant at 167, Chris Wickens at 177, Captain Ben Brooks at 191, and Tack Chace at heavyweight...
After a special prayer read by the dean of St. Paul's, organ and choir burst into Churchill's favorite American anthem, The Battle Hymn of the Republic. It was sung at his express command and in homage to the honorary U.S. citizenship granted him in 1963. It was also symbolic of his lifetime dream of a closer union between the two nations whose blood flowed in his veins. The martial thunder of the old abolitionist hymn, with its stern New England pieties, may at first have sounded startling in Christopher Wren's graceful English Renaissance church...