Word: torchlight
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...would remember the boisterous, brawling affairs that used to be & part of every campaign. Strippers, brass bands, torchlight parades, and riots were common occurrences, and a candidate without a leather lung was lost before...
...this didn't slow down the freshmen. A group of candidates organized a torchlight parade that circled the Yard to the tune of brass bands until unsympathetic Yard police chased them to a standing concert in front of the Union. A fake assassination, complete with caps, ketchup, and bodyguards was held after lunch one day, followed by a dragon slaying...
...everyone agrees with Minister Bhargava. Last week the mango growers of the Chandigarh Valley were up in arms. Arguing that the capital will take fertile land, some 170 farmers have been demonstrating against the city for five weeks, with torchlight parades during which they try to stop water-boring operations. The government's reply has been to arrest the demonstrators, take them out of the valley, and release them to walk home...
There was a little shriek of delight from the women spectators. Then the Sanders' neighbors crowded around them jubilantly. Outside the courthouse, another crowd of 300 townspeople whooped and cheered. That night 500 neighbors assembled in the biting cold outside the Sanders' big white farmhouse for a torchlight parade...
...cliche was neither surprising nor--for an American audience--persuasive, except for mass and length. The demonstration that the commonplace and the so-called "good German" characteristics played their part was more terrifying. Granted they did not appear in the stadium scenes, nor in the torchlight undertakings, whose purpose was to make the individual forget himself and his responsibilities in the Movement. But the act in the city itself played up the connection between the Party and German culture. Hitler was shown accepting flowers from children (blond almost without exception), shaking hands and talking with idolizing women in peasant costume...