recitation

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DeSantis’s opposition to the teaching of AP African American history speaks to a state power apparatus that is afraid of a factual recitation of Florida’s real history.

From Salon

There was the fight to restore the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance on his bleeding heart campus.

From Los Angeles Times

At Paul Revere Junior High, Russell won first place at a Shakespeare Festival for his sonnet recitation.

From Los Angeles Times

On the outside, it seems like it’s a quiet, calm ballad as it opens; Ellis on guitar, a recitation of the story of "a girl who’s got no history / got no past."

From Salon

Just as Lorca embodies Lorca, Wainwright threads recitations of Lord Byron’s 1816 “Darkness,” throughout a score otherwise based on the traditional Latin requiem text.

From Los Angeles Times