Word: brouhaha
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...final trap facing the new committee is the touchy question of implementation. The biggest brouhaha could center around which Houses should be blessed with a 1.5-to-1 male-female balance, especially a nine River Houses try to battle for the one or two slots with the more attractive ratio. This inescapable problem arose repeatedly during the old CHUL's discussions, but a pre-set agenda prevented serious debate over which Houses would...
...brouhaha continued as Pipkin ruled the motion out of order, saying that the agenda called only for discussion of the administration plan and not for a vote. The committee then voted to overrule Pipkin and passed the Bossert resolution with several abstentions but no negative votes, according to several CHUL members...
...because they "certainly are useless for espionage purposes." Almost any espionage haul, however, nets useless along with critical information; the films showed mainly that Hiss's prosecutors were selective in their evidence, as prosecutors generally are. They also showed that Nixon may have made more of a brouhaha than justified by the films. In any case, the films do nothing to change the jury's verdict...
What I really find difficult to believe, though is the assertion that this unending stream of Bicentennial brouhaha is really the voice of the people speaking. I mean, how many people have come up to you and told you how excited they were about the Bicentennial? There are probably a lot more people who are dreading the long haul until December 1976 than are looking forward to it. I, for one, have already developed a deep-seated antipathy towards the number 200 and I cringe when I encounter any word that begins with "bi". Even for those...
...council's president, Marvin N. Bagwell '76, reversed his decision--announced in anger after a six-hour board of directors brouhaha Sunday night--to resign his post, citing requests from council members not on the board and from Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, that he remain...