Word: handclap
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time to revise the party's 40-year-old constitutional pledge of "common ownership of the means of production," and work out "fundamental principles of British democratic socialism as we see them today-in 1959 and not 1918." Winding up a speech that won only an occasional scattered handclap, Gaitskell said: "I would rather forgo the cheers in the hope of more votes later...
...Gaelic football for girls, Queen Elizabeth II donned black boots, bright white helmet and floppy boiler suit for a visit to the Rothes Colliery in Fife. As Britain's first pit-hopping Queen, Her Majesty drew gushes for the garb from the watchful press, even earned a wee handclap from fussy Royal Couturier Norman Hartnell: "Being English, of course she looks marvelous in all sports clothes...
...young man on the podium was flogging the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic orchestra at a dead run through Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony when a handclap sounded from the raised platform at the rear. "Mr. Goldstein," said Conductor William Steinberg with icy politeness, "why are you in such a hurry? We do admire the playing of the orchestra, and we are surprised they can play all the notes, but we would rather listen to the music of Mendelssohn." The young man on the podium flushed, resumed at a slower tempo. Hour after hour, it went on that way last week while...
PRESIDENT Reneé Coty's black Renault drives up the Champs-Elyseées between lightly foliaged plane trees to the Arc de Triomphe. The crowd, thinly hugging the barriers, applauds mildly. The Republic is still worth a handclap, and 76-year-old President Coty, typifying today's worried "ordinary Frenchman," is worth several...
...uncanny clarity. He began his long prayer deliberately, never let his voice reach its maximum power (he saved that for his death scene), indulged in no gasps or sobs, nevertheless developed a painful pitch of feeling as he reached the nadir, almost whispering "Gospodi!" ("Oh my God!"). Not a handclap broke the hushed silence when he finished. Christoff's Boris is no lunatic, but a sensitive, conscience-stricken man whose terror at his infanticide finally cracks his sanity. The audience loved him. but not quite so much as he seemed to expect...