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...Princeton, she complained that "they showed bad manners-very bad manners-at Harvard." But Old Nassau was not much more polite. Some 250 pickets, including six Buddhist monks from a monastery in Freewood Acres, N.J., refugees from Tibet and Russia, turned up to razz her. Protested Mme. Nhu: "You're not helping us by hissing or booing us. Tell us precisely what's wrong with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Nobody Home | 10/25/1963 | See Source »

...also getting a warm welcome. "We heard about you, but we didn't think you'd come," said one Negro boy. What Dickie is not getting is white sympathy. Hecklers razz him: "You gonna keep going to school with those niggers?" His father got an anonymous letter: "Don't you know what happened in Atlanta? Do you want a Charlayne Hunter in your family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Integration: Dickie's Decision | 9/27/1963 | See Source »

...plastic creature that plays ball in an odd way: if a ball rolls into his middle, Ogg loses the round and waddles meekly toward the child with the ball. If the ball hits one of his outstretched flippers, he will back up, stick out his red plastic tongue, and razz his opponent with a disgusting noise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toys: Plastic Sugarplums | 12/7/1962 | See Source »

...work of four inventive young Englishmen, two of them Oxford graduates, two from Cambridge, all of whom are no older than twenty-eight. The four are Alan Bennett, Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller and Dudley Moore, and they have devised a series of satiric sketches--which they themselves perform--that razz the bejesus out of the Establishment, the Church, coal miners, pansies, the London Transport Board, Ludwig Beethoven, African nationalists, the Bomb, Harold Macmillan, World War II, William Shakespeare, and sundry other subjects of similar import and relevance to modern existence. The tone is radical and very youthful (although not doctrinaire...

Author: By Anthony Hiss, | Title: Beyond the Fringe | 10/10/1962 | See Source »

...driven into the poles, Berghof has enabled people to scamper up to a third level. In the garden scene where Malvolio discovers the faked letter, Berghof has a whole crew of people costumed as animals and perches them in the treetops with all manner of animal noise-makers to razz Malvolio (one of them even hits Malvolio with the contents of a water pistol...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Twelfth Night | 7/16/1959 | See Source »

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