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...shouted down. Irked by one heckler, he yelled: "You come up here-you seem to have all the answers." Finally giving up, he shouted: "When I was a student at Berkeley, I was both tougher and more courteous than you are today." While some students continued to hoot, others yelled for quiet. Cops formed a wedge to lead McNamara through the mob, then took him away through underground food tunnels. In his wake, scuffles broke out between his defenders and detractors...
...campaign, Erhard was confronted by a grim-faced chorus of Kumpel (miners) who closed in about the speaker's platform carrying black flags and muttering about impending mine closings. "Shameless riffraff!" snapped Erhard when they booed him. "If it hadn't been for me, these louts and hoot owls would have rotted in their diapers. Never have I seen so much stupidity, impudence and meanness in one heap." It was hardly the way to handle angry workers, and it was probably no coincidence that Gelsenkirchen voters turned more powerfully against the C.D.U. on election night than...
...heady ascent to fame has left Mrs. Miller slightly bemused, and still sweetly oblivious to the fact that she can't sing worth a hoot. "I'm not the best musician in the world," she says modestly. "My musicianship might crumble under someone like Leonard Bernstein." And while she candidly admits that her classically trained voice is not attuned to rock 'n' roll, she is touched by the interest of her teen-age fans. Last week, while trying to decide which of her two concert gowns she will wear for her appearance on the Ed Sullivan...
...professional musicians, only a musician would understand. Others, such as the Pervertimento for Bagpipes, Bicycle and Balloons, any listener could enjoy. Treading on every musical cliché, fugues began and went nowhere, arias seesawed off and on key, and when a climax was needed, Schickele chimed in with a hoot from a Seven-Up bottle...
...rather the audience supplies the message. When Peter's father refuses hem $200 bail and lets him cool off for a night in jail, parents in the theatre break into spontaneous applause; just what the young punk needs! Teenagers, certain that it's just what he doesn't need, hoot...