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...AUTUMN DAY A FEW YEARS ago, Anne Kennedy drove her son David to a nearby high school to take the SAT. A sea of cars buzzed around the parking lot, and Mrs. Kennedy knew there would be "a mob scene" after the students completed their tests. She asked David to wait at an intersection to avoid the crowds...
...over the suggestive excesses of Tin Pan Alley and the Broadway stage. Cole Porter's gymnastics in verse drove Lardner to postulate any number of revisions that reflected his disgust without diminishing his vitriol ("Night and day, under the bark of me/ There's an Oh, such a mob of microbes making a park of me"). Temperance of any kind was not a Lardner trademark...
...name mailing list and all its assets. "We're in effect taking over everything," said Morris Dees, whose anti-Klan Southern Poverty Law Center brought the case. The Knights were found guilty of violating the civil rights of blacks who were attacked by a Klan-led mob during a 1987 march in Georgia...
...Jong urges her readers to be "smarter than...two-bit polemists...[to] understand the war between the sexes so that we can end it." But instead of giving an intelligent reading of the "feminist" climate surrounding Henry Miller's reception, she defends Miller against a vaguely defined "feminist" lynch mob. The result is aimless rambling with no real theoretical significance...
...students from South Boston High School incited a race riot. Within minutes of the first stand-off, as white students stood outside and Black students crowded on the front steps of the school, students were hurling asphalt at the police, the mayor was sent to the hospital and the mob of reporters sent to the scene nearly outnumbered everyone else...