Word: mobbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...game reserve where 2,000 elephants have been counted, firmness and fair play won a victory that force could never achieve. Last week 10,000 African miners were back at work and a nationwide general strike was averted because a British Prime Minister whom they trusted coupled a warning ("Mob rule will not be permitted") with a rare promise: "The gap between black and white standards of living must be narrowed as quickly as possible...
...course catalogue, of the young men who plan to install a new freshly-cast bronzes bird atop a malformed Bow Street building, of the Square merchants lifting cord jackets form cardboard crates, and of a certain set of enthusiastic undergraduates who are sure they can talk a large mob into attending a so called all-college weekend...
...where the Yoruba people, led by Barrister Obafemi Awolowo, make their headquarters in the world's largest Negro city, Ibadan (pop. 459.000); and the southeast, which is Ibo-land, presided over by big-eared Nnamdi (Zik) Azikiwe, the flamboyant, U.S.-educated newspaper publisher whose oratory sways the Lagos mob. Usually, Ibo and Yoruba make common cause against the Moslem north; but last week their leaders were feuding over the flourishing port of Lagos...
Whether or not, through Coriolanus, Shakespeare vented his own presumed contempt for the common people, he was by no means taking his hero's side. The play portrays the fickle, mindless mob as the poor creature of human vanity, but it also exhibits a fiery, mindless Coriolanus as the victim of inhuman pride. Unlike the willful Lear, the willful Coriolanus cannot term himself more sinned against than sinning; also unlike Lear, he is hardened and envenomed by adversity. He is prevented from destroying Rome only by the pleadings of his mother Volumnia, who, in high Roman fashion, helps doom...
When the last cyclist has disappeared from sight, you are likely to feel both jarred and satisfied. Clever photography and careful acting produce a definite atmosphere--you can almost smell gasoline and oil. Of course this may be due to the mob of leather jacket fans you fight through to find a seat. But it's worth...