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...goodbyes (to say nothing of bodily fluids) are being exchanged like lira for euros. We approve whole-heartedly of this Bacchanalian excess and hope that each of the next four days and nights prove wilder than the one before. Nonetheless, it's impossible to wade through all this raucous merriment without sensing tension when well-wishers turn sullen and mutter under their breath as arch-enemies pass by, or when two friends stand aloof because one is moving to New York and the other to Sydney...
Rogers says he thought that the common experience of the war gave people a sense of a common cause for action. He described people as being "all together like a huge, ungainly, raucous, angry, barely post-adolescent family of 4,000 boys from anywhere and everywhere. Class evaporated...
India's movie industry specializes in raucous mythological epics; melodramatic histrionics are the mainstay of Italian opera. The two worlds collided in New Delhi this week with the triumphant return to politics of Sonia Gandhi. The Italian-born widow of slain prime minister Rajiv Gandhi reclaimed the reins of her Congress party Tuesday, after rowdy protests, pleading deputations and even an attempted self-immolation by a despairing supporter coaxed her out of a self-imposed week in the political wilderness. Promising that "every drop of my blood belongs to this country," Gandhi galvanized party activists for a head-on battle...
...last item on the program, Stewart Wallace's "The Cheese and the Worms," combined a Parmenidean theory of creation with a raucous bagpipe solo to strange effect--apocalyptic even--(thoughperhaps I am thinking ahead to Commencement morning). All in all, her solo or accompanied marimba performances left a better impression than the drum pieces, which made Glennie's two encores especially welcome...
...Perhaps Crocker arrived as the Auction was closing, because in our most conservative estimation, at least several hundred Eliot residents showed up to bid on such unique items as an oil massage, a conducting lesson and a personalized cheer from the cheerleading team. If anything, the high turnout and raucous bidding--Crocker was clearly not present for long enough to appreciate just how lively it was--reflects Eliot House's ability to develop into a more rambunctious and outgoing community, despite the author's assertion to the contrary...