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...sing The Cutty Wren, an old folk song of peasant revolt. It begins with the stilly calm of a Christmas carol, but as the stanzas become more aggressive, the conscripts improvise a louder and louder beat of spoon on glass, stick on stick, fist on palm. The powerful rhythmic din is the voice of the working class making itself heard, and the officers almost blanch at its menace...
Amid all the din about the radical right, it sometimes seems as though there no longer is such a thing as a far left in U.S. politics...
Held back by six rows of police, 1,500 people outside greeted the royal arrivals with an ugly din of boos, hisses and mocking shouts of "Sieg heil!" and "fascist swine." Thousands of others cheered. After the play, Queen Elizabeth left the theater alone, and was greeted by another chorus of boos. She looked startled and dismayed. It was probably the first time that British royalty had been so publicly humiliated at home since Edward VII was hissed at Epsom in the last century after rumor involved him as a corespondent in a divorce case...
...United States last year purchased over ten per cent of South Africa's total exports valued at $2.2 billion. If Britain joined din the boycott, South Africa would be denied roughly one-third of its export markets. In an economy dependent upon exports for 25 per cent of its national income, such losses bring severe dislocation...
...Birds. With a shrieking din, the lettering of the titles and credits comes on, only to be pecked from the screen by a squadron of crazed starlings. Having hinted at the ornithophobic horror to come, Director Alfred Hitchcock goes nattering on with an hour of some silly plot-boiling about a flirtatious society girl (Tippi Hedren), a lovelorn schoolmarm (Suzanne Pleshette), an Oedipus wreck (Rod Taylor) and a pair of lovebirds. Hitchcock addicts will just be getting jittery for their first fix of gore when it suddenly becomes clear that the birds is coming: man's feathered friends...