Word: pepping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Understandably, Cariou is not a match for Sri Laurence Olivier, whose Henry V is the one Shakespearean role in which he is indisputably supreme. Carious does not quite have all the voice needed for the "Once more unto the breach" harangue, as magnificent a military pep-talk as anyone has ever trumpeted forth. What is curious is that the British soldiers vigorously hurl balls at the toy cardboard-and-paper castle and have to interrupt the attack to listen to Henry's oratory. Kahn's direction here undercuts the need for any spur to action...
...black-uniformed corps of 126 black youths that patrols the ghetto, escorting people through the crime-ridden streets and protecting threatened store owners -both black and white. The patrols also report alleged instances of police brutality and work to clean up their neighborhood. Ditto organized the Political Education Project (PEP), a junior version of city hall made up of black teen-agers who were elected last year by 2,700 high school students. PEP officials serve as liaison with the Detroit city government, start improvement projects and study politics...
...wake the men up at 7 a.m. with a shrill fife sounded in each tent. After breakfast in an army field kitchen, the men would line up for roll call, and the junkdealer and a Montana ranger who had neven seen an Alaskan fire would give them a little pep talk and a lecture of old wives' tales on the chemistry of fire...
...this less-than-heroic image, Richard Nixon arrived in Boston last Friday. For a while, every detail of his campaign day seemed to fit the expected loathsome pattern. Nixon had cancelled plans for a public rally on the Common; instead of bothering with the hecklers, he would give a pep talk to campaign workers inside the snug Somerset hotel, and then answer questions from a careful ethnic mix of six New England citizens...
...pages of text, he had offered hardly one new thought. Indeed, much of his speech was a pastiche of cliches from other party pep talks going back 15 years. But it created precisely the evangelistic effect that he had hoped for: the delegates jumped to their feet and gave him a proloneed, heartfelt ovation. Even Dissenter Cousins joined the cheering, ready to relent a bit. "We can differ on one specific issue. But it doesn't mean we're not right behind the government on all else...