Word: triumphalism
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...most turbulent city. There last week, in greater numbers than ever, hysterically cheering Indians turned out to greet the touring missionaries of Muscovite good will, bulletheaded Communist Party Chief Nikita Khrushchev and his straight man, Soviet Premier Bulganin. Streets along the line of entry were scrubbed and decorated with triumphal arches; the city's swarming sacred cows had been driven into back alleys, and red flags fluttered on every side...
...this same group has turned upon Nixon as the man who stopped Hiss's triumphal march and helped to vindicate Chambers. If ever there was a flagrant case of the truth's being twisted by knaves (the real Communists and their conscious sympathizers) to set a trap for the thoughtless and the unwary, this is it. You deserve great credit for beginning to clear...
Each pantomime is a small, precise work of art with a beginning, middle and end. New York had never experienced anything quite like it. But Marceau,whose career began, nine years ago as a mime in Jean-Louis Barrault's Paris company, has already made triumphal tours in Italy, Western Germany and Scandinavia. By week's end, he was the fashionable thing for New Yorkers to see. He was preparing to move up to Broadway for another two-week run, CBS-TV wanted him for the Ed Sullivan show, but NBC-TV got him first for a Spectacular...
Seven days after the triumphal signing, Nasser faced a cheering mob in Alexandria. As he rose to make his speech a man stood up in the audience and fired eight shots at him. Nasser remained standing and all shots missed. His first cry was, "Arrest that man." Then he stepped to the microphone: "Oh, my men, stand in your places. Oh, free men, stand. I revolted for your sake. I taught you dignity and self-respect. Oh, my citizens, my men, I brought to this country dignity and freedom, and I fought for your sons. Oh, free men, stand...
...recorded in harrowing detail "this confusing mixture of rascality and gallantry, of bloody murder and of common sense, of intolerable grimness and of surprising joviality" that was the desert war. When the R.A.F. bombed a port in Tunisia, Johnston went along. And so "the BBC made its first triumphal recording of a member of a bomber crew in actual flight over a target . . . Clear as a bell it came over the intercom: 'Here come the obscenity obscenities,' " meaning German fighters...