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...have come to pass like this: the Clan members had all been to the penny-fights and Aldershot it, and they were lying around Palm Springs or Vegas talking of gin and beer. Someone turned on the box, and there, on the Old Old Show, was the 1939 rouser Gunga Din, with Gary Grant, Victor McLaglen and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Wouldn't it be a gas, someone else inquired, to remake Gunga Din with Sammy Davis Jr. as the water...
Salan has what other pied-noir leaders lacked?executive ability and discipline. Though he has the gift of phrasemaking ("The Mediterranean crosses France the way the Seine crosses Paris"), he is no mere rabble-rouser...
...Midsummer Night's Dream went on too long. Mendelssohn's music soon began to sound too sugary, and Balanchine, although unfailingly clever, offered few novel ideas. Nevertheless, he and the City Ballet had produced a sure crowd rouser ("Every night," said Balanchine, "I go to bed and say 'Thank you, Mr. Mendelssohn' "). Chances were excellent that Midsummer Night's Dream would become exactly what its backers hoped-"a Nutcracker for grownups...
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...
Ironically, Asanuma was largely responsible for creating the atmosphere of violence that has recently plagued Japanese politics. A rabble-rouser who never tired of praising Red China, or of calling the U.S. "the common enemy of China and Japan," Asanuma organized the snake-dancing demonstrations that kept President Eisenhower away from Japan last June. Since then, ex-Premier Nobusuke Kishi and Socialist Jotaro Kawakami have both been stabbed by fanatics. This did not deter the Socialists from launching further violent demonstrations. Crying "Down with Ikeda," left-wing Zengakuren students charged police barricades at the Diet, began their ritualistic snake dance...