Word: mass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people in St. Giles excitedly awaited the service book, which had been revised and "stamped" by Archbishops Laud and Wren. Its sponsors chose the most explosive hour possible. Thus, the infamous Jenny hurled the stool (see cut) and cried: "How dare you to say 'mass' to my lug [ear]?" The dean beat a hasty retreat, but Jenny's signal touched off a riot. In spite of chastising Jenny and her drastic action, Hannas today are Presbyterians...
...remarkable fact of the latest Kremlin shakeup was that Khrushchev found it necessary to define Communism's goals in American terms-"initiative," "incentives," etc. He told a workers' mass meeting in Leningrad that Communists should "be able to solve the problem of catching up with the U.S.A.," that the Soviet people should have enough meat, butter, milk and fruit, and their shops should be filled with "everything that makes man's life more beautiful...
Roll the Drums. In Moscow alone, 8,000 mass meetings were held in two days, and at them well-briefed party activists worked over the communiqué. Said Radio Moscow: "The strongest impression which one gains among the population is that those dismissed have no following." At a U.S. embassy party, First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan-who, as usual, had lithely jumped the right way-promised: "Things are going to be the same as before, only better." Scores of cities and towns named Molotov or Kaganovich petitioned with punctual unanimity to have their names changed. Ukrainian Premier Nikifor Kalchenko charged...
...Demonstration Mass will be held tonight at 8 p.m. in the Lamont Forum Room sponsored by the Newman Club, it was announced last night. Tomorrow afternoon; a discussion meeting will be held at 1:30 in Phillips Brooks House. Next Wednesday Coffee Hour will be held at 7:30 p.m. also...
...Pride and the Passion (Kramer; United Artists) succumbs to a common failing in modern movies-the curse of unrestrained bigness. Mightily successful as sheer spectacle. The Pride almost succeeds in personalizing its heroics, but its humans tend to get lost in what amounts to runaway mass movement. Not so strangely, the movie's true hero and source of its emotional appeal is a monster cannon whose ornate bronze undergoes triumphs and mortifications that flesh could never endure...