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...message. Time magazine arrived at the scene and suddenly satire had become commercial. Everybody was it. "Attack us!" came the cry from the audience across the land, attack our corrupt middle class values. We will laugh as long as you don't make us listen. We will applaud as long as you don't ask us to think...
...their aims are those of a part of the political arena, the march is a step forward. Those who support a liberalization of American policies need not resign the function of criticism to those of the right; they need not be so timid that they only look on and applaud with silence...
...democracy by dictatorship-those who would transform our fellowship of free states into the bondage of satellites." The Cubans, led by Castro's puppet President Osvaldo Dorticós, laughed out loud. The other 19 delegations gave Rusk a standing ovation. But though the delegates stood together to applaud in the resort's converted gambling hall where Rusk spoke, they split into widely divergent groups in the negotiations that followed...
...have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course--and we like to be called "assistants," not "graders"--you may be able to ferret out one or two cosmic assumptions of his own; seeing them in your blue book, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders are politically unconcerned, not all are agnostic. This is an older generation, recall. Some may be tired of seeing St. Augustine flattened by a phrase, or reading about the "Xian myth...
Boos & Blows. According to Carrara, a particularly important function of his claque is to discipline the amateur fans who applaud for love of music, not money, but who have little knowledge of opera. When he spots amateurs about to start a demonstration, Carrara musters a detachment of claqueurs to drown them out. When Maria Callas sang in Poliuto (TIME, Dec. 19, 1960), a group of Stella's fans booed Callas, were drowned out by the claque and became so enraged that they started a slugging match that sent two combatants to jail. Although the La Scala claque never shouts...