Word: brouhaha
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There are, of course, lines that should not be crossed. The current church-state brouhaha involves, indeed was largely started by, two especially ill-advised crossings. The first is school prayer, and particularly the President's recent handling of the issue. The constitutional amendment on school prayer is about as close as one can come, in the American political context, to advocating state imposition of religious practice. Proponents deny this. One fig leaf is that school prayer will be voluntary. But in the universe of the eight-year-old, and certainly in his school life, very little is voluntary...
Home-town pride produces a civic-mindedness that borders on the obsessive. In the Potrero Hill neighborhood, a builder wants to put up some stores on a pizza shop's back lot. A petition drive and local media brouhaha have deterred...
...pretty neat things have happened in the last few days down in Providence enough to merit a broad reconsideration of the city, in fact. Because if you like good civic scandals. Providence's current brouhaha is about the best in recent memory...
...pure chump operatives]" of white editors. Farrakhan's 10,000-member sect, an offshoot of the less militant and racially integrated American Muslim Mission (membership: 100,000), has provided guards for Jackson. At a Nation of Islam rally a little over a month ago, Farrakhan touched off a brouhaha by threatening Jackson critics, especially Jews. "If you harm this brother," he vowed, with Jackson a few feet away, "I warn you in the name of Allah this will be the last one you harm...
...order could have subjected most of Reagan's top associates to lie-detector tests. At least one Cabinet resignation was threatened. "It was a black day around here," says a White House aide. Administration "pragmatists" intervened to get the foolish scheme canceled. Reagan was surprised by all the brouhaha: when he signed the sweeping order, he said, he had not realized that Secretary of State George Shultz, for instance, might be affected. "That order was not very complicated," says an aide with unusual bluntness. "Anybody could understand what it meant...