Word: rant
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...South's orators may rant at the Supreme Court, but Southerners generally recognize the consequences of court rulings, indicated Pollster George Gallup last week. Gallup found that 52% of white Southerners now feel integration will inevitably come, compared to 43% when the same question was asked 14 months ago. But while they believe integration is inevitable. Southerners also predict it will not come easily: whereas 14 months ago 51% of whites thought tension between races would worsen, 59% are now of that opinion...
...delegates marched out. In vain did the learned president of the Tunisian National Institute of Arts and Archaeology sing the praises of the Mediterranean, "this happy sea." Italy's Communist Senator Velio Spano, whom nobody could remember having invited, somehow got the floor, delivered the customary party-lining rant against the West. Next day a Moroccan delegate angrily demanded that the Americans, French and Spaniards pull out of North Africa. A French Senator rose to protest that he had not come all the way to Florence to hear a "systematic critique of my country." Cried an F.L.N. delegate...
...Lilith languors of that Protean whore; Dame Peggy Ashcroft sounds too much the maidenly elocutionist for the passionate verses in her assorted Poetry Readings (London). London's Sherlock Holmes disk goes to the other extreme as three mighty hams-Sir John Gielgud, Sir Ralph Richardson. Orson Welles-rant and thunder through Dr. Watson Meets Sherlock Holmes and The Final Problem, in a tatter-tearing passion that would never have been tolerated at 221B Baker Street...
...reception. He regarded his opening night performance as the finest achievement of his whole career. "I never felt better on any stage that I did that night," he said. The next day the critics unanimously panned him because "I was not ferocious enough, and I did not rave and rant." Realizing this was his first critical and commercial flop in 13 years, he decided toward the end of the play's brief run to act the role as the critics wanted. He "tore through the performance like a madman, and hammed the part within an inch of burlesque...
Such a determined counterattack against an influenza epidemic has only lately become possible-or been considered worthwhile. For centuries, while far deadlier pestilences were commonplace, the influence seemed unimportant, usually killed only the aged and already infirm (it was jocularly dubbed the "new acquaintance," "gentle correction" or even "jolly rant"). But as the ancient scourges were being brought under control, influenza occasionally became more lethal. Finally, in 1918-19, it erupted in a global pandemic, one of the worst disease disasters in history, which claimed at least 15 million dead-many of them, unaccountably, young adults in their prime. Still...