Word: clappings
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...full propaganda advantage. Waiting in the wings, however, are three more suicide volunteers, including an aged Buddhist nun. Not intimidated, Diem's sister-in-law, Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu, continued to preach the hard line against the Buddhists. "If they burn 30 women, we will go ahead and clap our hands," said Mme. Nhu. "We cannot be responsible for their madness...
Thank God, a winner at last. No clap-trap in this one, no humbug and no humdrum inanities. The lean years are over (briefly, at any rate); and good theatre, entertaining entertainment, intelligent humor and everything that's good have returned to the Boston stage. After which quotable phrases it is my duty to tell you that Beyond the Fringe, which opened at the Colonial Theatre night before last, is beyond doubt the cleverest and best piece of theatre that will come anywhere near Boston this year. I laughed my fool head...
...papal infallibility defined, and 55 of them walked out of the council rather than vote on the decree (all ultimately accepted it). A storm raged over Rome on the day the doctrine was approved; each favorable vote was echoed from outside St. Peter's Basilica by an awesome clap of thunder...
Then, after fifteen or twenty minutes the film went blurry. Not impossibly blurry, just enough so that one might attribute it to technique. Eyes strained, faces contorted into strange, squinting positions.... But when the little man on my left began to clap, his wife grabbed his arm and the entire audience ssshhhed him violently. Squelched, he looked at the distended, hazy figures on the screen and muttered something to his wife, who snapped "Shut up, Morton...
...pleasing; and even better things were soon to come. Regardless of whatever else it can do, a group as large as the Chorus ought to be able to sing with power. And the Summer Chorus, with its stops let out, was overwhelming. The second of the opening compositions, "O Clap Your Hands," proved this beyond a shadow of doubt. Scored for chorus, brass, and percussion, "O Clap Your Hands" is a jubilant setting of verses from Psalm 47. The Chorus sounded most convincingly jubilant...