Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...does feel, at times, that Dr. Greene rates too high the average Greek, that he might have done well to have considered H. G. Wells' pessimistic verdict on the Athenian mob. We cannot believe that all Greece was populated by Leonidases and Pericles when we know that Cleon and Alcibiades also had their day. Just so the author quotes a quotation of Galton in support of his statement that the men of Athens "developed a type of citizen whose political experience and sagacity, whose contact with life in varied occupations, and whose capacity for appreciating beauty and reason has been...
...gathered a national following, and Herr Hitler has apparently attempted to follow that precedent. Premier Poincare appears to be the government of France, as Lenin and Trotsky are of Russia. Indeed, it would seem that statecraft has suddenly become a manipulation of those personalities who can draw the mob to their sides by a cry of panem et circenses...
...develops the disagreeableness of democracy which has overstepped bounds. The foundation of the plot is laid about an incident of Lloyd George's war career. At a political meeting in one of Great Britain's industrial cities, Lloyd George and his policies were resented by an infuriated mob of workmen, and the expresser was forced to leave the building by a rear door in the disguise of a policeman. Shortly thereafter, the wisdom of Lloyd George's policies was proved, and the same workmen returned him to power with an overwhelming majority. Thus democracy, which seemed to be a failure...
...true life did not please Galsworthy, who desired the disagreeable. In his play the central character does not escape and the mob does not prove the worth of democracy, but on the contrary, the hero, commits suicide and the mob triumphs to the disadvantage of democracy. Galsworthy is so full of the disagreeable that he is false to life...
...bought her love for one week. The monk Athena? perceives in a vision that his mission is to spiritualize Thaïs, to make her the bride of Christ. His ancient comrade, Pelamon, says: "My son, ne'er mingle with the people of this era"; Nicias laughs in scorn; the mob throws stones; yet he succeeds in reforming Thaïs. Thaïs sees the emptiness of pleasure, is led in ecstacy to a convent. Then Athana? leaves her, but finds that he loves her in the flesh. Madly he denounces God, says nothing is real " but life and passion...