Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Anglican clergyman of the clan of D'Ascoyne who is rather too fond of his port. But most of the other of Mr. Guinness's creations are equally memorable. He has managed to pack the essence of Guinness in these roles which reflect his range from the Lavender Hill Mob to Captain's Paradise. Also engaging is Joan Greenwood as the calculating young lady who engages at least part of our hero's affections...
...issue grows increasingly critical. Besides the bombings and mob violence that have accompanied efforts at desegregation on buses and in schools, there have been repeated instances of economic pressures applied against Negroes seeking equality. Furthermore, there were distressingly frequent charges last fall that Negroes in some states were denied the right to vote...
...people are pleased by this unmarxist revolution-especially the revolutionaries triumphant in their suburbs-but since World War II, a whole school of literature has sprung up worrying about the situation. The "whitecollar mob" and the "lonely crowd" have become the objects of much nervous concern. William H. (for Hollingsworth) Whyte Jr., an assistant managing editor of FORTUNE, is the latest and perhaps the most thoughtful writer to be thus concerned. His "Organization Man" is the man with the rotary hoe-the suburbanite who is doing well in technological America. Whyte wonders who slanted his skull into a middlebrow conformation...
...Mob. French mourners at the Froger funeral became a mob when a bomb, set to explode when the mourners were gathered around the graveside, went off prematurely. The mob surged through the streets, 10,000 strong, smashing windows, overturning vehicles, yanking Moslems from their cars and lynching them, jeering at the U.S. consulate near the funeral church and spitting on its walls. The Moslems retaliated. Bombs exploded in four churches during Sunday services. On New Year's Day a bomb exploded in Algiers' swankiest hotel. Others were tossed at cafés all over Algeria; cyclists were machine...
Snow today is patently not the gentle white blanket Winter spread over the Earth in Granpapa's time. The delicate flakes, banded together like a mob of cunning females, have launched a surprise attack, changed color, and now they press for victory. The men who wrote of Snow's pristine beauty in the past did not foresee the snow of the present, Cambridge snow. The books shout forth a warning, which we must heed, "Use the sewers--or go under...