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Resistance to the appointment, President Reagan assured a political rally in Miami last week, had come from a "little lynch mob." Some "little lynch mob": half the U.S. Senate, backed by a phalanx of other politicians and legal scholars, all opposing the President's nomination of Archconservative Daniel Manion to a federal judgeship. The final vote of the Senators was 49 to 49. The roll call came on the question of whether to reconsider an earlier vote, one that would have been 47 to 47 but tipped 48 to 46 for confirmation only because the rules forced Senate Democratic Leader...
...fashion a Galatea or a Bride of Frankenstein, come love, lust, violence and art. Simone (Cathy Tyson), a chic London call girl, understands this impulse in men and knows how to indulge it to her profit. Well, it's a living. But to George (Bob Hoskins), assigned by a mob boss to be Simone's chauffeur, it seems a living hell. How can she endure these rough hands and tawdry nightdreams? How can she not respond to his courtly Cockney love? Simone does respond, in the only way she knows, by using him. She sends her squire out to play...
...time I wrote Democracy in America, one of the strongest fears was that this form of government would be tantamount to mob rule. I suggested how the American system could prevent or mitigate the tyranny of the majority. This process went further than I anticipated. Now I am hard put to find any majority in America at all. There are, to pick but one example, more women in the United States than men; yet since gaining suffrage in 1920 they have failed to win decisive power at any level of government. I attribute this to the fact that women, like...
...thirst for American pop culture. As long as they can bad-mouth the society that produces the stuff, they don't feel so bad about indulging in its exports." But even then, apolitical American targets are not always off limits. After the U.S. bombing of Libya in April, a mob in Barcelona stoned a local McDonald's. Last year Peruvian Marxists sprayed graffiti and burned tables at three of Lima's five Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants...
Last year, for example, one week after the day-long SASC sit-in at the Harvard Corporation's headquarters at 17 Quincy St., Kashani invited the South African consulate general to address a closed meeting of conservative at Lowell House. A mob of students, including many SASC members, blockaded Lowell House, preventing the departure of the South African diplomat until the police were able to extricate him. Following this incident, the University revived a Vietnam-era disciplinary committee which eventually placed 10 students--all SASC members--on academic probation for the Lowell blockade...