Word: mocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Oconomowoc, Wis., transformed itself into a mock Soviet classroom for a week last year. St. Paul high school students are taught about early experiments in Communism, "so when we come to Russia and its Communism, it's not a shock." Denver maintains a committee of teachers to decide how to handle touchy subjects...
...fund raiser, he has written or edited 21 books, has had several one-man shows of his watercolors. His What Cheer is the classic anthology of British and American humorous verse, and his own poems are in more than 100 anthologies. In light verse McCord has waged a furious mock battle for the "lost positive...
...Hanfstaengl incident slipped ominously into the past, the Corporation voted to resume Lowell House's Sunday afternoon bell-ringings, and the Debating Council decided to stage a mock trial of Adolph Hitler. A bench of five professors, includling Raphael Demos and Arthur N. Holcombe, heard undergraduates argue pro and con on the German leader and then found him guilty on two out of four charged counts. Charles Feibleman '37 was one of the prosecutors, while two more of his classmates, Thomas H. Quinn '37 and Arthur G. Sullivan '37, supported Chancellor Hitler's defense. Quinn, Sullivan, and company were unable...
...Stage realism is all very well, but Actor Hugh Griffith, 50, a 1960 Oscar winner for his comic role as the chariot-racing Sheik Ilderim in Ben-Hur, laid it on a mite thick. Standing atop a wooden box in London's Aldwych Theater for a mock hanging scene in Bertolt Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Griffith slipped, felt the noose tighten round his neck, and blacked out gurgling. First came the smelling salts, then the brandy. Ten minutes later the beetle-browed Welshman was back-and with a hangdog look, remounted...
Deacon Mushrat is the first of these memorable figures, a Godsymp if there ever was one. "It should be brought out at this point," he intones at us in his mock Gothic script, nose and pince nex dabbling the air above the rostrum, "that the right handed person is correct, natural, and beloved by Providence." The tone deepens and the face frowns, nose still dabbling at the suspect air. "It has occurred to some of us who keep our eyes open that there are entirely too many left handed people worming their way into positions of power. According to reliable...