Word: crowds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people, I was not admitted to a string quartet concert in Sanders Theater . . . owing to the fact that the hall was full by five minutes of eight. I do not object so much to the fact that I could not get in, but rather to the way the milling crowd outside was treated. The yard cop at the door simply said that no more people would be admitted, locked the door and let it go at that. The door was, however, opened two or three times in the next twenty minutes. The first time someone suggested that the concert...
Finally it was announced twice to the crowd still surrounding the door that absolutely no-one else could be admitted because of the rigid fire laws; whereupon, before the door had closed each time, a few particular people were allowed to go in. This of course infuriated the rest of the crowd. It is unfortunate that such undemocratic favoritism should flourish in Harvard at a concert supposedly equally free to all Either everyone waiting should have been admitted...
...made good on its promise to let the Liberal Union take over if Truman was ahead at midnight, and people cheered a bit as the returns over two television sets and a loudspeaker showed that Truman was holding on. In the center of the cheering, there was a small crowd of Young Republicans and their girls, formally dressed, drinking champagne, and never a one of them cracking a smile. But both sides knew that when the returns started to roll in, Dewey would pull out front; and neither side knew what would happen in the Senate or the House...
...small crowd watched the game, and saw the Adams squad fumble the first two times they got hold of the ball. They never got started again after that...
...only collective explosion in evidence was the unanimous guffaw in the press-box at the official crowd estimate of 35,000. (Most professional observers thought that there were less than 30,000 in the Stadium...