Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crush through eight small turnstiles at which there was no separation between people who had tickets and people who didn't--fences were torn down; cops were attacked, and finally the whole crowd shoved toothpaste tube-style past any foolish authority that might have attempted to control it. The mob psychology was amalgamated Woodstock in perversion: we are all one and no one is going to stand in our way. The music belongs to the people...
...NOVACAINE high of a situation like the Sha-na-na concert is an understandable escape. If there is little safety, at least there is a common bond in numbers. In this mob exists a different spirit from the vein of Sha-na-na nostalgia, but it is of the same genre. Commercialized consumerism can create instant nostalgia, market a product, and sell to those who crave it. There is a record collection that comes on with "Remember the sounds of the Summer '73." We're already nostalgic about the present, a time scale compressed to the point of absurdity...
...late by then. The ideas you espoused had unleashed the mob; the very fabric of civilization was shredded. At least we were able to protect the system against such total onslaughts in this country." Hamilton had always had a feel for his adversary's philosophical weaknesses. "I fully understand how Mr. Nixon felt," he said. "A mob -not unlike the Paris mob or the St. Petersburg mob-was baying in the streets of America. The President believed there were foreign influences. The newspapers were printing national secrets purloined by traitors. Mr. Nixon seemed to believe that extraordinary methods were...
...remember seeing a bass-fiddle player lying on the floor, still putting bow to strings. There was a priest standing up, holding a Cross in one hand and an Argentine flag in the other. Then I saw a young man handed up over the heads of the mob, being dragged up by his hair onto the platform. I think he was beaten to death up there...
...nickname is "Fingers," because five of them were mangled as punishment for fouling up a gunrunning operation early in his career. Wary, only partially daunted, in his soldier's way wise to the ways of the underworld, he is still dealing in hot guns, supplying them to a mob specializing in branch bank heists around Boston. Simultaneously, he is trying to beat a bootlegging rap by doing some minimal informing-a thief's honor warring with a middle-aged man's need to put his comfort and his family's needs first...