Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bailey to drive home to the jury the horrors that his client faced while being held captive by the S.L.A. The jurors were taken to see the two closets that Patty claimed had been her tiny prison cells after her abduction. The expedition turned out to be a mob-and-media event that might have been conceived by Nathanael West (The Day of the Locust...
...going to be a mob scene, and the Crimson's All New Super-duper Astroturfed (Formerly Called the Cube) Sports Lounge can only accommodate so many. But if you want to write sports for the most widely-read piece of paper in the University, then now is the time to make your intentions known...
...revenge for an attempt on his brother's life, but when the opportunity actually arises, Joey says, "We're not those kind of men/It's peace and quiet that we need/To go back to work again." Which sounds quite romantic and pacifist, but in context is saying simply that mob warfare is a poor atmosphere in which to conduct the business of gambing and numbers-running. Upon his release from prison, "He tried to find a way back in/To the life he'd left behind," but this is not Frank Sinatra coming back to Brooklyn after the service, looking...
Kathleen M. Bybee '78 came to Harvard from Salt Lake ("the mecca," she calls it flippantly) with a chip on her shoulder, expecting the worst. "I had read about the persecutions of Mormons in Illinois [where Joseph Smith was pulled from a jail and killed by an angry mob], and I kind of expected a little persecution," she says with a nervous smile that hardly conceals her embarassment at this paranoia. The oldest of seven children ("people always joke about Mormons and Catholics," she adds), Bybee chose Radcliffe over BYU, her parent's favorite. "They were afraid I would fall...
...said that he frequently commanded special planes and railway cars to bring his card-playing cronies along on jaunts round the country. At one point he was driven through the streets in a truck with a dunce cap pulled over his ears, jeered at by a screeching, vengeful mob of Red Guards. Eventually he confessed to all the charges against him and admitted that his "thought and attitude were incompatible with Mao's thought...