Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before coming to Cambridge as a student, Svirsky last year clarified University news for his readers by reporting a mob beating, with race implications, inflicted on two undergraduates. His hiterpretation was hotly contested by the Dean's office, and a fierce battle was subsequently waged in Time's Letters department...
Meanwhile, in Paris, the swank Normandie Theater on the Champs Elysées was the scene of the biggest cinematic hullabaloo since the opening there of Hollywood's Air Force. The occasion: the first night of Ivan, Part I. Outside, would-be spectators created mob scenes comparable to those in Eisenstein's Ten Days That Shook the World. Inside, however, the audience was sharply divided. Parisian sophisticates, perhaps not yet grown up to Eisenstein's post-sophisticated refurbishing of primordial cinema devices, booed and stomped and hissed at the all but Shakespearean intensity of the great static...
Despite some indignation over this devotion to Composer Giacomo Puccini's realism of plot and tender score, the first performance of La Bohème was a success. The critics aloofly condemned Puccini for writing down to the mob. But there were 15 curtain calls. The great Giuseppe Verdi was notably absent, but Pietro (Cavalleria Rusticana) Mascagni and Ruggiero (Pagliacci) Leoncavallo, sitting in boxes, led the cheering. Tall, droop-mustached Giacomo Puccini, 37, tearfully embraced Toscanini. La Bohème, a work with a realistic human story,* has been one of the most popular operas ever since...
...have no authority to speak for Governor Caldwell; however, no article will convince me the Governor favors or condones mob violence. I do feel positive, however, that Governor Caldwell does not condone the raping of children and pregnant women anc would be very reluctant to interfere with execution of such criminals...
...Governor Caldwell did not consider the killing of Jesse James Payne a lynching because there was no evidence that Payne had been abducted from jail and shot by a mob. Presumably the crime was committed by one man, as yet unidentified...