Word: mocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mock-minatory farewell address to London's Pilgrims Society, Britain's new Ambassador to the U.S., jolly, Cambridge-educated Sir Patrick Dean, 56, noted that the only other Cantabrigian to have represented the Crown in Washington was Sir Edward Thornton, who clung to the post for 14 years (1867-81), longer than any other British diplomat. Said Sir Patrick: "You have been warned...
...Grooms. "Something you can see as it happens-what people wear and do." Often he makes wooden constructions that are as simple as a man petting a dog. "In itself," he says, "that's a cozy act." Or, he confronts the viewer with Palace in Babylon, a cardboard mock-up of D. W. Griffith's 1916 film epic, Intolerance. As in a spectacular dollhouse, chariots, dancers, spear bearers, and potentates in braided beards are framed betwixt potbellied columns. Atop them trumpet curly-trunked elephants, seated like corpulent Hollywood-style brokers at a banquet. Playful, punning, and still...
...petroleum and steel industries. At Western Electric's "Plant of Tomorrow" in Kansas City, they control the billing, shipping and warehousing, order materials, write the checks to pay for them, decide what to produce and in what quantity. The New York City Bar Association last week staged a mock trial in which it subpoenaed computerized business records as evidence, thus raising questions about how to cross-examine a computer and who to blame when a machine's decisions cause a corporation to run afoul of antitrust laws...
...Berlin Philharmonic, Sir John Barbirolli conducting. The first movement, as long as Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, is full of fluctuating rhythms that move along with a tidelike pull. Barbirolli lets them ebb and flow, then swings vigorously into the dissonant dance movement and the coarse burlesque Rondo that mock the first floating dreams...
...proposed march, he declared, was Communist-inspired, abetted by a "collectivist press," by "propagandists masquerading as newsmen." He delivered himself of a withering blast against his old Alabama University friend, Judge Johnson, calling him a man who is "hypocritically wearing the robes" of a judge while "presiding over a mock court," one who "prostitutes our law in favor of mob rule...