Word: brouhaha
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Unwavering Opponents. Though the book quickly found its present publisher, Trilling's admirers feared that her work would be devalued by the brouhaha. They need not have worried. The critiques of Hellman's politics are appendices to a masterwork of social and literary criticism. Like Hellman, Trilling came of political age in the '30s, when, as she writes, "partisanship with or opposition to Communism made the great intellectual rift in this country." In those days people like Hellman were called Stalinists, though it was a term they would not have chosen for themselves. Hellman publicly supported Stalin...
...film itself is an even more turbulent saga than the brouhaha surrounding it. Bertolucci uses the lives of two friends born on the same day in 1900 to trace the major social and political upheavals of 50 years of Italian life (a better English rendering of the title, Novecento, might be Twentieth Century). Bertolucci's bias is frankly Marxist. His scenario, set in the rural Po valley, celebrates the rise of the Communist movement among the peasants and its ordeal under decadent landowners and brutal Fascists. Is this waving of the Red flag the real reason for the movie...
...such historian, Allen Weinstein, a professor at Smith College, has found himself in the middle of a literary brouhaha in the pages of The New York Review of Books and The New York Times over his maverick stand in the now re-ignited Hiss case controversy...
...much easier for him to try to postpone the language brouhaha until after the more ambitious programs are considered...
...BROUHAHA and hubbub once raised against corporate control of American life has pretty well died down since radicalism went out of style. But the movement against the corporate ethic of mass production, mass advertising, mass consumption, and mass waste goes on in more constructive ways...