Word: crowds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great day there was no violence, but plenty of noise. Trains, buses, autos and old-style ox wagons poured 250,000 South Africans onto the scene. A city of 5,000 tents had been built to shelter part of the crowd. Many were dressed in Voortrekker garb-the men in cowhide or corduroys, with feathered slouch hats, powder horns, and bushy beards which they had carefully grown during the past year; the women in flowing dresses and tight kappies (sunbonnets...
...reliefs of Voortrekker heroes and other figures of South African history. At noon, a shaft of sunlight fell through an opening in the monument's dome upon the words "Ons Vir Jou Suid Afrika" (We for You South Africa), engraved on an altar 130 feet below. The crowd watched in solemn silence while organs played; at that moment, throughout the land, bells pealed from every town and village belfry...
...Girl was a pompously titled new departure for Henry Koerner, one of the country's most promising young painters. With even more ambiguous symbolism than that which characterized his last exhibition (TIME, Feb. 21), Koerner had painted a girl hauled from the ocean while an uncurious crowd fished from the dock above. Koerner's oil was as stark as a tabloid photo, and more disturbing. Was the Girl a successful channel swimmer, or an unsuccessful suicide? The painting offered no clue...
Officers are selected from the ranks of the soldiers and are trained for nine months at one of the army's four schools. They must be high-school graduates. Courses are short on arts but long on fundamentalism, homiletics and crowd psychology. One of their textbooks is the army's Orders & Regulations, which contains advice on how to handle toughs ("He should let them see that they have not worn out his love . . ."), how to conduct "Hallelujah Windup" sessions, how to select a wife or husband. Officers are not allowed to marry outside the army...
Jordan Marsh's Santa Claus was reached only by following a labyrinth of railings designed to keep a large crowd in an orderly line. Luckily, there was almost no line, and when Santa had taken care of three serious-faced youngsters. I asked him how he liked his job. "Why, it's the sweetest job I've ever had. Just sitting here all day. Sure, and it'd suit me foine if it lasted clear 'til June...