Word: brawls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exactly what he does in the funniest scenes of the film. At one point (in one of many flashbacks) the young gynecologist interrupts his best friend's wedding with the news that he is going to marry his best friend's betrothed. The action begins with a furniture-throwing brawl between the bride elect and her drunken groom (the gynecologist having been laid out quite early in the festivities), and ends in a glorious reconciliation, with all three sitting down together to the wedding banquet...
...faction of the Zengakuren student federation for provoking the police to "murder" Coed Michiko Kamba during the assault on the Diet building (in fact, Miss Kamba was trampled to death by her own fleeing comrades). Roaring with outrage, 200 Zengakuren members assaulted the Reds' Tokyo headquarters, began a brawl that ended with one Communist in the hospital. Explained Communist Party Secretary Kenji Miyamoto later: "The Trotskyite students of Zengakuren are tools of the American State Department, which, as everyone knows, is financing Zengakuren activities...
...down and eviscerate him while still alive; a priest was once heard saying his prayers even as his heart palpitated in the hangman's palm. Ben Jonson killed a man in a duel; "Kit" Marlowe was stabbed to death in a tavern" brawl. The Elizabethans lived dangerously, and while they lived, they were asmile with daring. Shakespeare held a magnifying glass to the spirit of his age, and set the unroofed circle of the Globe's "wood en O" blazing with his Muse of Fire...
Alaska's once rough-and-ready students have been so tamed that lads who used to brawl merrily in taverns now while away winter's "cabin fever" by placidly staring at TV's Maverick. If students still use car trunks as deep-freezers for fresh game, they seldom skin moose in the dormitories and hang the carcasses outside the windows. President Patty has even clamped down on beards, mukluks and Levi's; slacks and jackets are now fashionable. To those who protest, Patty snaps: "Fellow, civilization has caught up with you. I advise...
Last week-after Sauve was cut down by a heart attack at 52-the Union Nationale went up for grabs among Duplessis' old lieutenants. By the time cigar smoke cleared, the party had weathered a Tammany brawl for the succession, and the big French Catholic Quebec province (pop. 5,000,000) had a new premier: Joseph Marie Antonio Barrette, 60, a Duplessis colleague for 23 years and Quebec's labor minister since...