Word: mocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mock trial in the Lowell House Common Room early in the fall of 1934 convicted Adolf Hitler on only two criminal counts out of four; yet even in its serio-comic recognition of Nazi Germany, the Harvard community was beginning to shake the sleep from its eyes. Local politics, however, lost no ground to international. Boston's Mayor Curley got a no-confidence vote from numerous Faculty professors, and hostility to President Roosevelt was confirmed by a straw vote of Faculty and undergraduates. Again Harvard conservatives stood out against the national voice, which of course voted in New Dealers...
...peaceful ceremonies. On Chicago's lakefront, 959 aliens held their right arms high to pledge allegiance to a system of justice under the law, and were sworn in as new citizens. From Portland. Ore., to Hillsboro, Texas, high school students acted as jurors in mock trials. Atlanta ministers delivered sermons. Seattle TV stations presented programs, San Diego lawyers met with foreign-exchange students-all to explain the meaning of law and the vital need for its rule in the world...
...this kaleidoscopic use of attitudes that Genet substitutes for action; and it is his shifting, jarring, distorting, disrupting color effects that constitute his theatrical thrusts. What most flares and flashes is a scathing, mocking Negro anger toward the whites. Where in Genet's The Balcony men act out their dreams, in The Blacks they act out their nightmares as well. Often unbridled, sacrilegious, obscene, The Blacks is echoing too at times, with travestied ceremonies, Pirandellian illusion and reality, a sense of secular Black Masses and King Lear mock trials. A savage Negro assault that is also a Genet indictment...
...showed mock gruffness with student nurses who tied granny knots in scarflike slings. He was so tense as he scrubbed up to do a Caesarean operation that a nurse had to stand by his side and put the in evitable cigarette into his mouth for an occasional drag. He almost barked, "Take the baby away from me now!" as soon as he saw that it was alive though blue from oxygen deprivation. While he stitched up the mother, he snapped at the nurses in their own Shan dialect - they were having difficulty, even using oxygen, in getting the baby...
...last fall's mock election at the University of Michigan, Nixon defeated Kennedy, though Kennedy easily carried the state. At Indiana, Northwestern and Ohio State, Nixon...