Word: mocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Past Nelson's Column and on up Piccadilly to Hyde Park marched 10,000 irate Britons bearing mock coffins and neatly lettered banners. "We backed you at the poll," read the slogans. "Don't put us on the dole." Gloomed another: "Prepare to meet thy doom." The demonstrators were British aircraft workers, and the object of their protest last week was Prime Minister Harold Wilson's troubled Labor government...
...suspects inhumanity personified." West German democracy, he said, "only shares the name with what one used to understand by it," and the leading political parties are bent on creating a dictatorship that would make Hitler seem like "an orphan boy." For that reason, Niemöller urged Christians to mock next September's elections by turning in ballots invalidated by written expressions of scorn for the contending parties...
Because I cannot hope to turn again Consequently I rejoice, having to construct something Upon which to rejoice Suffer us not to mock ourselves with falsehood Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still...
...WHAT A LOVELY WAR. Joan Littlewood and her troupe mock and grieve over the senselessness and tragedy beneath the uniforms and military doubletalk of World War I. It is a scorching, fascinating evening in the theater...
Julian marries Miss Alice in Act III, upon which she and her entourage at once prepare to leave him. They call themselves "agents"; they are certainly worldlings; they may be Fate's Furies. Holding a mock trial and firing a mortal bullet into Julian's stomach, they proceed to teach him what Albee believes he knows. Man is alone. The universe is a void. Whatever illusion or symbolic replica of faith man invents to still his fears and help him accept the inevitability of his destiny may be called Tiny Alice...