Word: rouser
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...face, so Mamet has told it with a borrowed voice. The time is 1934, the place a radio station. The play is being acted out before microphones, which means that all of its virtues are peripheral and nostalgic. A spectral voice pushes the Depression chain-letter craze; a rabble-rouser denounces capitalistic society...
...fact, killings and bombings by the Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army have been cut drastically this year. That did not stop the militant Protestant followers of the Rev. Ian R.K. Paisley, the working-class rabble-rouser who is as contemptuous of what he calls the "bluestocking brigade" (the middle-class Protestant Establishment) as he is of "old red socks" (the Pope). Last week Paisley and his "loyalists" in the United Unionist Action Council called a general strike, Northern Ireland's first in three years, to force the British to renew tough search-and-destroy operations against...
...occasions evolved out of respect for others. Trumpets were used for centuries in tribute to people and deeds. True, all those renditions of Hail to the Chief never made Richard Nixon a good or great man. But, damn it, whispers a military historian, Hail to the Chiefis an old rouser going back to the 19th century, which is used to lift spirits and tell people the President is there. The history of those honor guards that Carter is curtailing-Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin rated only a four-man color guard-goes back to the Bible...
...Senate, having voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and most of the other major civil rights measures of the 1960s. He once condemned the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as a "self-seeking rabble rouser," suggesting later that the slain civil rights leader had incited the riots that broke out in the wake of his assassination. Byrd was so opposed to the progressive decisions of the Warren Court that he broke ranks with his colleagues in supporting President Nixon's ill-fated nominees for the Supreme Court, W. Clement Haynsworth...
Died. Gerald L.K. Smith, 78, self-styled rabble-rouser and proudly bigoted founder of the extreme right-wing Christian Nationalist Crusade; of pneumonia; in Glendale, Calif. A fundamentalist preacher, Smith left his pulpit to work for Louisiana Governor Huey Long, crossing the country to set up Share-Our-Wealth Clubs. After Long's death in 1935, Smith turned far right. In his virulent magazine The Cross and The Flag, he heaped invective on Jews, blacks, Catholics, Communists and labor unions, and campaigned to drive "Franklin D. Jewsevelt" out of the White House...