Word: phalanx
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...phalanx of Marine Corps MPs would not be able to keep audiences away from Pippin. Does this mean that it is one of the pinnacles of the art of musical comedy? Hardly. What Pippin possesses is splendiferous theatricality, the kick of a lightning bolt and a passionate professional knack for being entertaining. The show satisfies the popular non-platonic ideal of a US musical. It has the musk of sexuality, firecracker dance numbers, sunshiny songs and smashing girls that the gods of Olympus might ogle...
...fate. His crime was that he had complained that student ideas of justice were similar to those of the Nazis. Another band of youths invaded his classroom, denounced him as "Professor Schwein [pig]" and tried to throw him out of the window. Schwan's own students formed a phalanx around him, however, and led him to safety...
...from being satisfied with what or where she is. Though she isn't too clear on where she would rather be, she knows it isn't up there on the big, steamrolling bandwagon of Women's Lib, or in the front ranks of the marching phalanx, waving banners. Much as she admires them...
...silence surrounding the struggle of black Angolans against centuries of slavery and colonial rule has been broken at Harvard by the Pan-African Liberation Committee. We have all been made to understand that the phalanx of Portugese military and American economic power arrayed against the Angolan people stretches to Harvard, which owns a substantial holding of Gulf Oil stock. Like the Angolans in 1961, we at Harvard must make a beginning.The emblem reader Salazar, Savior of the country: the shield says: everything for the nation, nothing against the nation...
...lowest blow of all didn't come until the next day. Someone in Muskie's entourage leaked to the phalanx of reporters that follows the Maine Senator the interesting fact that the Muskie staff had letters from two well-known contributors to liberal causes, saying that each planned to contribute $1000 to both the Muskie and McGovern campaigns. Hearing this, the two philanthropists were outraged and denied the rumor. McGovern himself vehemently denied the claim, and Mankiewicz called the rumor "scandalous." Even Dick Stewart, in Muskie's press room, said that no one in the Muskie office had any knowledge...