Word: jeer
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...with a reputation as a classic. But Munk's film stands up less well than Ozu's under the glare of posthumous appraisal. It looks like a roughing out of the masterwork that it was meant to be-one angry young Pole's bitter, blackly comic jeer at wartime myths of courage and honor...
...Christ-Traders!" To make sure they obeyed, the government posted 700 policemen to keep the bishops out of the cathedral in Athens' Metropolis Square, where they had been carrying on their politicking, and a crowd turned out to jeer them. "Christ-traders! You want gold, not God!" someone shouted. The 36 most defiant bishops wheeled off to the Holy Synod Building a block away and went on with their balloting...
...edge of madness. He follows his daemon to East Harlem, then on to Germany, where he composes an electronic symphony, scores it for soprano, orchestra, tape, women's high-heeled shoes, and vacuum cleaner. When it is performed back in the Hollywood Bowl, some cheer and some jeer, but he is accepted by the public as a genuine genius...
...mock with a cleansing mirth every emotionally supersudsed subject from sex and death to religion, patriotism, family pieties money, mom, war and the Bomb. They are as well aware as any conventional morahzer that the times are out of joint, but they choose to greet the dislocation with a jeer rather than a jeremiad...
...that Goldwaterites "don't write obscene letters to editors who disagree with them," but they did jeer and refuse a fair hearing to Governor Rockefeller. You say they are "well-behaved," but the televised view of the convention hardly bore this out. You say, "They don't hate Negroes," but a good many around here do. You say, "They aren't nuclear-bomb throwers," but Senator Goldwater has indicated to us that...