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...left his mark on the theology of the church by cracking down hard on "modernists," who meant to water down the traditional faith of the church to make it conform to prevailing scientific and rationalist concepts. He left his mark on modern liturgy by stimulating a return to Gregorian chant. He deeply influenced contemporary Catholic life by calling for frequent communion and for the early communion of children, by developing the laymen's movement known as Catholic Action...
...will be canonized on May 29. Pius, who had an excellent voice himself, instituted a major reform of Catholic church music. Fighting the widespread use in church of professional opera singers and instruments such as drums, trumpets and violins, he advocated a return to Gregorian chant...
...major finished his report and snapped: "Enjoy it." But the people refused to enjoy it. They set up a new chant: "We want the revolution!" Leaf lets flooded the streets. Transport workers went on strike. Unionized cabs raced the streets, trailing slogans that read: "We Do Not Want Corrupt Politicians Again...
...named the 24th president of Harvard University. He was an apparent nobody, plucked out of nowhere, who had never even written a book. His classmates managed to work him into their rhymes: "Nate" was "great," and so, of course, was " '28." But the rest of Harvard had another chant...
...singsong chant of an auctioneer rang through the gilded, tapestried halls of Cairo's Kubbeh Palace last week, sounding the end of one of the most expensive and generally useless collections of gimcrackery ever assembled. Like a royal pack rat, ex-King Farouk had cached everything he could beg, buy and demand-tiny telescopes with diamond sprays, priceless relics of Pharaonic culture, a 100blade knife, an outstanding coin collection, a Nazi marshal's gaudy baton. Egypt's revolutionary regime was putting all of it-treasure and trash-on the block in a six-week sale...