Word: riotousness
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...army and air force officers, pleas from across the nation for his return, and Quadros' final surrender to the popular will-after the parties released him from all commitments. The timing and execution of last week's resignation showed similar calculated recklessness. There were a few riotous demonstrations, including the stoning of the U.S. embassy in Rio* by 200 students. Foreign Minister Afonso Arinos urged Congress to "refuse the resignation, or else there will be chaos and civil war." And across Brazil, the pleading began for Quadros to return-presumably on his own terms again. His resignation would...
While a toga-clad rabble-rouser egged them on, their legions grew to 4,000 in two riotous evenings (against a force of 32 Yard cops and proctors, augmented during the second demonstration by 25 tear-gas-tossing Cambridge police). Marching on Harvard Square and making the spring night hideous with an ad hominem battle cry-"Latin, Si; Pusey, No!" -the undergraduates got nowhere with a recalcitrant president, who (said the Crimson) would forevermore be "derided as the man who changed alma mater to foster mother...
...Cuban soil last week, it was inevitable that there would be shouts and shoving, mostly against the U.S. So, right on schedule, it came to pass. In Moscow, well-organized throngs marched on the U.S. embassy to toss inkpots and rocks; they were easily kept from getting really riotous by a phalanx of Soviet militiamen. In Rio de Janeiro, Bogotá, La Paz, Caracas, Mexico City and Buenos Aires, unruly mobs of students and workers milled in the streets and battled with police and one another. In Tokyo, left-wing students and Communists stormed around the U.S. embassy. In Egypt...
...that now the meetings are no more than riotous and scandalous sessions where there is no way to organize an objective debate, and which are filled with invective and insults. And then, as the United Nations becomes a, scene of disturbance, confusion and division, it acquires the ambition to intervene in all kinds of matters. This is especially true of its officers. It is anxious to assert itself -even by force of arms-as it did in the Congo. The result is that it carries to the local scene its global incoherence, the personal conceptions of its various agents...
...very funny; in minor roles Thomas Babe and Thomas Segall overplayed what could have been a very good thing. Laurie Gould as Doll Common was sexy. If the slow pace and heaviness of the production had not dulled one's senses, several of the scenes might well have been riotous...