Word: applauding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...react. We applaud it. Just so it is genuine. We will see the results, we will follow them, and we hope those who have signed will not perhaps repeat the mistakes they made in the past. That is to say, signing and unsigning...
...Your cover story on urban terrorism [Nov. 2] was a welcome analysis of a subject that has thrust its ugly head to the fore. Perhaps it will serve to open the eyes and the minds of all those who scream for law and justice in one place while openly applauding terrorism and lawlessness in another, and of those who fear a creeping octopus of crime in their own backyard, yet applaud Communist-supported and fascist-like anarchy and murder in others...
...looted. From the high towers precious documents float down into the moat." He records the rainy grayness of Paris and the strange periods of calm when the Revolution catches its breath ("Most people lost interest . . . The price of bread continued to rise"). He sees the city's whores applaud a lynching "with their white hands, so expert at stimulating desire." He tries to turn his eyes away when a laughing mob drags a headless corpse from the Hotel de Ville, but he cannot...
...telling commentary on the whole evening was the audience's uncertainty whether to applaud once Chestnut's body was removed from the stage. The plot threads were that tenuous. A few glimpses of Chestnut as a baby, cub scout and young man were projected on the wall of the house, but these seemed only token gestures after the exciting film work in Zone 2. With greater selective judgment, Criss could have shortened this play by one hour and made far better use of his extremely gifted actors. Where he did venture into experimentation, he had solid backing from John Jacobson...
...breakdown at home. Democracies will approve half-measures when all the real alternatives are distasteful. But having survived the sixties, America has lost its taste for internationalist oratory, multi-security pacts, and world law. It barely listens even when the President, on a pilgrimage to the Vatican, pauses to applaud the morality of power...