Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...completely collapse. They go on living anyway." [TIME, Dec. 29]. These words, spoken by Bob Taft about the hungry and politically confused peoples of Europe, seem to ... me the most cold, curt and cruel indictment, or better still abandonment, of humanity since Marie Antoinette told the hungry mob, "Let them eat cake...
...Qureshi, charged the prosecution, was a Moslem League hothead who not only led the mob outside Dr. Joshi's hospital, but fired the shot which killed the Hindu doctor. Furthermore, the prosecution produced six witnesses to prove it. All of them were Hindu or Sikh...
...Conductor Charles Münch, a conductor of the windmill school, lifted his baton and the cellos rumbled out a dark and ominous theme. Poet Claudel had first tied his heroine to the stake, then let her mind wander through agonizing flashbacks: memories of the coarse yells of the mob, a howling dog, rolling drums. Standout scene: Joan's trial. Claudel and Honegger make her judges animals, with Porcus, a pig, presiding. Porcus (dramatically sung by Tenor Joseph Laderoute) screams his charges and denunciations, and the chorus howls "Hérétique! . . . Sorcière!" Joan finally dies...
This time it was blonde Bettye Mills's Stork Club, located on a lurid strip of honky-tonks known as The Block. Bettye not only serves drinks, she has strippers for entertainment. And for free she tosses the mob her garter every night. Such goings-on, Sherm felt, would "impair and cause severe damage" to his reputation...
...Vienna, Wilhelm Furtwängler, famed prewar conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic (but officially cleared of Naziism), fared less well as he appeared for a concert at the music hall. A mob met him outside with boos and catcalls, and began shoving; a Soviet sentry fired a warning shot and Furtwängler got in. But shortly the mob got in, too. The concert and the hissing began about the same time. The demonstrators: former concentration camp inmates...