Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Into Riot. In orderly ranks in the early morning, they marched on the city (pop-359,000). All wore work clothes, some carried hammers on their shoulders. On the way to town they persuaded office workers and tram employees to join them. At 11 a.m., now a vast crowd, they gathered in front of City Hall. A Communist official tried to speak to them from the top of a public-address truck. A group of youths scrambled up onto the truck and began manhandling the Communist; most of the workers did not mix in; neither did the onlooking cops. Then...
...James Joyce's Ulysses imagined himself invested with the scarlet mantle and gold chain of the Lord Mayor of Dublin. To Joyce, Leopold Bloom's dream was doubly fanciful because-he was a Jew−and what chance would a Jew have of becoming major of Dublin town...
...refugee camp, while police reinforcements from a dozen nearby cities fought the rioters with Sten guns and fell back in confusion before the wildly swinging clubs of the mobs. Four more Africans were killed and a score hospitalized. By the third night Evaton was a ghost town peopled only by small knots of men waiting for one another with knives or clubs...
...certain town the Baptist church was destroyed by fire on a Friday night. At once a Catholic fraternal organization offered the use of its hall to the Baptist congregation for Sunday services, and the offer was gratefully accepted. What is to be said of the procedure adopted by the Catholic organization...
Picnic. William Inge's play about a husky athlete (William Holden) who bounces around a small town like a loose ball while the ladies (Rosalind Russell, Kim Novak) fumble excitedly for possession (TIME...