Its sweltering citizens rushed for the beaches, its forests burned and some of its nuclear plants had to be closed down because the river water to cool them was insufficient.
"Paris is simply awful — a kind of continuous earth-quake of motor-busses, trams, lorries, taxis & other howling & swooping & colliding engines, with hundreds & thousands of U.S. citizens rushing about in them," she wrote.
That so many gay and lesbian Utah citizens rushed to get married also rather dramatically demonstrated that what this case (and others like it) is really about is allowing citizens to express love and commitment to each other in an open and free society.
After the war, Wharton tired of Paris, writing to Bernard Berenson, "Paris is simply awful — a kind of continuous earth-quake of motor-busses, trams, lorries, taxis & other howling & swooping & colliding engines, with hundreds & thousands of U.S. citizens rushing about in them".
On November 9, when the wall was accidentally declared "open" at that famous press conference which changed history, the Stasi freaked out and started destroying files as everyday citizens rushed the Stasi offices and demanded to see what had been written about them.
And there is the humorous strip by Isaac Robert Cruikshank, a hand-colored aquatint titled "Going to a Fight" (1819), that scrolls out from a small spool to show a group of citizens rushing by horse, bicycle and foot toward an uproar that seems to involve a stubborn horse and the occupants of the tipped cart it has been pulling.
Porteous was initially sentenced to death for murder, and when the execution was delayed, a mob of citizens rushed the city jail and lynched him.
The depreciation was even steeper on the black market and financial collapse seemed imminent as citizens rushed to exchange their rubles for dollars, euros, durable goods, and canned goods.
Amidst the destruction and aftermath of the recent earthquake in Nepal, daily miracles and moments of compassion illustrate what is possible when humanity bands together -- babies pulled alive from rubble, mothers sheltering hours-old newborns and citizens rushing in from around the world to provide relief to massive suffering.
