Word: mobbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outrage perpetrated by "that government in Paris." By last week a glib, handsome young (34) bookseller named Pierre Poujade had organized this native outrage into a political nuisance called the "Union for the Defense of Commerce and Artisanry." Comes the Revenooer. In Rodez 4,000 UDCAers mobbed tax men trying to in spect the books of M. Salvan's pottery shop, and hustled collectors and their police escorts out of town. At Autun 700 Poujade vigilantes frightened inspectors out of Louis Barnay's butcher shop. At Perigueux 500 defended the town's black smith against collectors...
...KINGDOM for a stage!" cried Shakespeare, but he could only dream and meanwhile curse the "unworthy scaffold" he must needs make do with. The stage, when Romeo and Juliet was first presented, was little more than a gangway shunted shoulder-high through a roaring mob.*Down these bare boards an actor strode, and with a wave of the arm required his hearers to believe they were "in fair Verona, where we lay our scene." In later centuries, notably toward the end of the 19th, productions of Shakespeare became almost as richly furnished as they were badly played; but not until...
...worldwide in scope, related di rectly to the social and political temper of our times. There is only one mental aberration in which these two symptoms coexist: in the psychopathic personality, essentially antisocial, conscienceless, inclined to violence in behavior, and liable to loss of identity in the group, gang, mob or herd. The psychopath is a rebel without a cause-hence, in a chronic state of mutiny. He strives solely for the satisfaction of his moment-to-moment desires. Raw need is all that drives...
...heroine (plump Soprano Zinka Milanov) acted with all the agility of an animated Epstein statue; one of the heroes (hefty Baritone Leonard Warren) seemed to have heeded to excess Marie Antoinette's famed advice, "Let them eat cake"; and the mob that broke into the Act I chateau seemed neither big nor fierce enough to start a good argument, let alone a revolution. Nevertheless, for anyone with an ear for music and a mind for the elaborate make-believe that is opera, the Met won out handily over its slicked-down and tricked-up competition...
...libretto is full of mysterious letters, whispered warnings and preposterous melodramatics. Nevertheless, the opera does convey tremendous theatrical excitement and a sharp sense of the great revolutionary ideal that turned into vulgar tyranny. Particularly rousing in the Met's otherwise conventional staging: the trial scene, with a vicious mob of women in the courtroom bleachers demanding Chénier's blood...