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...defendants, 13 Black Panthers in coarse working clothes. Glowering, hooting, they yelled and swore, keeping up a desultory cacophony of epithets, calling the judge and Phillips "fascists," "pigs" and "racists." In the audience behind them, Panther supporters in Afro haircuts, shawls and dashikis joined in the sporadic bedlam, ridiculing Murtagh's determined calls for order. Shouted one defendant, Richard Moore: "This is nothing but an electric circus, a racist Babylon!" Twice fights broke out, and one woman was cited for contempt of court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trials: An Electric Circus | 2/16/1970 | See Source »

...cast is uneven, and Director Gene Saks too often seems merely to have urged his actors toward assorted bedlam. Martin Gabel displays a finely arrogant condescension as the Hawk, who can sniff out Communist threats in unpopulated jungles, and David Burns as the Ambassador hilariously exhales his words like a trombone in anguish. A lavish campaign contributor, he storms that Washington doesn't even know where his post is. That is the play's problem as well, but the laughs are located at Broadway's Helen Hayes Theater, and in a dry season they are thirst quenchers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Laughter in the Dark | 2/16/1970 | See Source »

...painfully apparent Harvard had fallen apart emotionally, if not physically. With the B. C. partisans creating intense, unending bedlam, Vin Shanley put the Eagles ahead at 12:44, and with three minutes remaining and Harvard's Chris Gurry in the penalty box for tripping. Sheehy made the score...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Late Eagle Rally Nips Skaters, 6-5 | 12/18/1969 | See Source »

...capacity crowd of 4013, which had arrived more than an hour early and thoroughly booed Harvard's first appearance on the ice, created a verbal bedlam at the opening whistle that set the hurried, almost frantic New Hampshire pace early in the game...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Skaters Humble New Hampshire; Cavanagh Nets Three in 11-3 Rout | 12/10/1969 | See Source »

...friendships are firm ones. Their cliques of four or five are as Final as anything institutionalized. Not that they are unfriendly to people outside their clique-if anything, a constant friendliness is inherent to the style. They are cordial to the point of exuberance, sometimes to the point of bedlam. If male, they could be shouting at football games: as it is, they can discuss a hockey game vivaciously throughout a dinner. When asked what adjective they would use if they wanted to give another girl the highest compliment possible, they unanimously answer "charming" or "feminine...

Author: By Faye Levine, | Title: Peach, Chocolate, and Lime The Three Famous Flavors of Radcliffe | 9/18/1969 | See Source »

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