Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Atlantic Monthly in May, 1941, way back when, Archibald MacLeish pointed to the dangers facing American higher education, using the University as an example: "Harvard, for all its history, is endangered as are other universities by a European political revolution which attempts to substitute propaganda for science and mob emotion for disciplined thought: a revolution which would, if it could, grind Harvard with Yale and Princeton and Chicago and Pennsylvania and Stanford and the rest into the rubbish which was once the University of Prague and the University of Heidelberg and the University of Bonn...
Concierges and shopkeepers asked their intellectual betters what Existentialism means (few can answer, but many try). In the overcrowded metro a working man has been heard to swear at a neighbor who shoved him: "Species of an existentialist!" At one of Prophet Sartre's recent lectures, an overflow mob of 2,000 was turned away, a small riot occurred, and women swooned...
Action by Mob. It was true that most of the men still in uniform (the Army has already released 5,000,000) had seen little or no fighting. But they could be just as homesick as men who had. Most of them, even many of the officers, were conscripts and they had never had any liking for soldiering. They were frustrated by idleness. They had never fully understood why the war was fought. To most of them no one had ever bothered to explain the Army's postwar job. Many who had heard explanations of a sort thought...
When soldiers discovered what every good agitator knows-that by mob methods they could stir up a quick reaction from the U.S. public and its Congress-they began to act like a mob. Generals as well as politicians were powerless against this behavior. With G.I. demands ringing in his ears, General of the Army Dwight Eisenhower issued a strategic retreat order to theater commanders: return to the U.S. any men "for whom there is no military need...
Last week, in the opinion of tidy, martinettish Lieut. General Robert Charlwood Richardson Jr., chief of Army forces in the mid-Pacific, Stars and Stripes went too far. It headlined a story of the Manila riots: "Patterson [Secretary of War] Branded Number One Enemy by Jeering Mob." "Nellie" Richardson forthwith forbade the editors "to refer in your newspaper discourteously to the President of the U.S., the Secretary of War, the Chief of Staff of the Army or to others in authority in the Army...