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...also punish violators of his order for contempt of court. Bound on gutting the bill, Southern legislators rallied around an amendment taking contempt punishment out of the judge's hands and putting it in the hands of a jury. The trial-by-jury cry, a ,pretty good rabble-rouser, stirred up so much emotion that many a conservative Midwest Republican found it a handy pretext for joining Southern Democrats on the amendment...
Fignole's popular appeal is natural. He comes from poor peasant parents, struggled for an education, discovered a hypnotic gift of speech, organized the poor blacks of Port-au-Prince and turned them against the well-off mulatto elite. Preaching a race struggle, Rabble-Rouser Fignole promised the blacks cars, houses and the mistresses of the rich. "Haiti for the black Haitians!" he cried. In more recent years he has tried to forget such anti-elite demagoguery...
...Tunis had settled for the formula of "internal autonomy"; for Moroccans the happy phrase was "independence within interdependence." Now Bourguiba proposed a referendum in which Algerians could choose between 1) independence, 2) status quo with a reform program, 3) federation with some form of internal autonomy. Snorted Moroccan Rabble-Rouser Allal el Fassi, who takes his cue from Nasser: "The time is not yet ripe for solutions...
...song is being written by Alan Jay Lerner '40, who wrote the lyrics for "My Fair Lady," and Leonard Bernstein '39. When requested to write the piece, Bernstein asked, "Do you want a chorale or a rouser?" and was told a rouser would be preferred...
...Prescott, who knows that "all of this short life [is] a leavetaking, while you hang on, saying No, not yet." Preacher Prescott, both a Job and a Jeremiah, is summoned to his church in the dead of one night by the clangorous bell-ringing of a white-hating rabble-rouser and finds his inflamed flock already there, armed with guns and ready to shoot it out with a lynch mob of whites that is cruising around the bottom land. The Preacher heads off an ugly racial skirmish with an impromptu sermon: "Whether old Abe Lincoln live and die in vain...