Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cultural Revolution was carried through with violence, viciousness, humiliation of simple persons--all the horrible mob scenes we know from any vigilante or kangaroo court action. If Mr. Nwafor wants some corroboration, let him read the account in the current issue of Harper's of the Chinese Cultural Revolution by Eric Gordon, an English Communist and Maoist, who spent four years in Peking, working for the government's Foreign Language Press Association, and who came out sickened. Perhaps Mr. Nwafor should spend four years there before he is so quick to say that after ten days he will "use some...
...euphoric mob reaction was understandable. Since his election in 1969, Busia had gradually lost popularity by imposing harsh fiscal measures -including a 48% currency devaluation last month-to rescue an economy still reeling from the extravagances of the Nkrumah era. The real question now, however, was whether Acheampong would be able to handle the economy as well. Even while calling upon Ghanaians to "sweat" and sacrifice, he increased the pay of lower-ranking civil servants and lowered basic food prices to their pre-devaluation levels with the help of a huge government subsidy...
...unable to challenge and from which he therefore retreated, into the stagnant world of the Eastern European Jew, a world of peddlers, of scholars, of "luftmenschen" (literally, "men-of-the-air" that is, parasites, do-nothings) where he would scrounge a life until the next Good Friday when the mob of Christians would burst in for revenge upon the "Christ-killers", who would be cringing in their houses, under their beds, praying for salvation from a very meek and very silent...
...mind consider the narrative while the action lunges forward--something else new for him. Who really killed the cat, for example? That question may color the way you look at the entire film. But Peckinpah hasn't resolved anything enough to make us understand how Amy. David and the mob finally measure up in his eyes...
Italians, however, might-perhaps ought-to take special offense. Jimmy Breslin's comic novel recorded the exploits of a sad-sack mob of Brooklyn hoods with good-humored scorn. Waldo Salt's chaotic script turns Breslin's characters, which were already caricatures, into vicious racial stereotypes. Everyone is either venal, murderous, retarded or deformed; and since they are almost all Italians, one might be tempted to conclude that everyone whose ancestors were born between Sicily and Milan is a feeble-minded racketeer...