Word: mobbing
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...Lyons they burned tires. In Montpellier they solemnly bore empty coffins through the streets. And in Paris last week, more than 2,000 high-spirited students marched down the Champs-Elysées, shattering traffic lights with rocks. As the mob charged toward the National Assembly, black-uniformed riot police armed with plastic shields, bullet-less carbines and tear gas panicked and began forcing the demonstrators back with truncheons. Undeterred, 8,000 medical students later staged a sit-in while others blocked traffic, tore up construction material and smashed a police bus. With such skirmishes continuing throughout the week...
...Brotherhood of Teamsters, even though he had watched several bosses stumble trying to keep both the Government and the gangsters at bay. Two Teamsters' presidents, Dave Beck and Jimmy Hoffa, went to prison on federal charges of corruption. After his release, Hoffa vanished, presumably rubbed out by the Mob. A third, Roy Williams, resigned the week before last in exchange for remaining free on bail while he appeals his bribery-conspiracy conviction. "That chair isn't a throne," Presser once remarked. "It's an electric chair...
...been planned as a peaceful demonstration to dramatize the plight of unemployed Brazilians. But as the procession of 1,000 made its way through the streets of Sāo Paulo last week, the mood suddenly turned ugly. Shouting "End the unemployment or we will stop Brazil!" a rampaging mob shattered windows in supermarkets, butcher shops and bakeries, stripping shelves bare of food. Other looters helped themselves to clothing, television sets and even 518 Ibs. of coffee from a delivery van. The rioting continued sporadically, spreading through poor neighborhoods and threatening the busy downtown shopping district. At week...
...urge to enact society's revenge. Lock the bums away forever. At the same time, they can still imagine what it feels like to be present at the atrocities, even for the briefest instance; every life has analogues of its own. The essential circumstance is that of the mob, always a terrifying entity, whatever its goal. One thinks of lynch mobs before rape mobs, but all mobs have the same appearances and patterns, the same compulsion to tear things down or apart. The object of passion is sighted and pursued. The mob rises to a peak of pure hate...
...attention most men know and dread. It is a moment in which they are out of control as individuals-not merely outside the law, but out of biological order. Something stirs, an ancient reflex, as if they are dragged back through history to a starting point in evolution. The mob is a pack, its prey the female. Her difference is the instigator, her frailty the goad. Rape what you cannot have. Plunder what you can never know. Mystery equals fear equals rage equals death. It is she who stands for all life's threats, she who released animal instinct...