Word: masses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shakespeare was not a manufactured article. He happened. So did I. We must take our luck in the matter of genius. Short of that we must get on with American mass production...
Today the citizenry thronged the Plaza Murillo, not to gape at the bullet-shattered facade of the Presidential Palace-nor even to stare at the Junta members working inside the smashed windows of the second floor-but to attend High Mass at the Cathedral next door. La Paz is bewildered and aghast at the violence of the last weekend. There has been an immense religious revival. At last Friday's Mass for the dead of both sides, the Plaza was absolutely packed. Even the men knelt to the Host, a rare phenomenon in Spanish America...
...knows that all this packs a wad of political dynamite. Ex-President Cardenas could fan up hot opposition if the deal smacked of surrender. Soviet-grooved labor leader Vicente Lombardo Toledano, whose powerful Confederation of Mexican Workers recently lost the oil workers' union, might yell "foreign imperialism." The mass of inflammable Mexicans, who associate "Standard" and "Shell" with other indignities like the shelling of Veracruz, might suffer an attack of spontaneous combustion...
...decisions : to concentrate on raising the family status of African women; to petition the Belgian Government for reinstatement of a law encouraging monogamy; to prepare the way for more conversions (of 11 million natives, Protestants and Catholics have thus far baptized about 10%) with an all-out drive for mass education...
Naughty boys, perverts, and the world's few serious Satanists have for centuries amused themselves with much talk and rare observance of the luridly infamous Black Mass. Capable of infinite variation in its pseudo-liturgical mumbo jumbo, the Black Mass usually has as its basic ingredients a consecrated host, an apostate priest, a prostitute and a virgin, combined to achieve a maximum of orgiastic blasphemy...