Word: furor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...points Nos. 1 & 2 which raised the furor...
...greater part of this furor deserves a quick exit with no curtain calls. There is, however, a question of morals which is outside of all legality and upon which the most recent champions of the Scrubwomen stand. In Pome short moment when the crusading ardor is not all-powerful, "The Harvard Square Deal Association" might be reminded that any question of morality inevitably means a moral issue, not an absolute moral truth...
...found him less disturbing, more to be accepted. Prokofiev too has changed in the past ten years. Now 38, leading an unheckled life in Manhattan, he writes more simply and with greater deference to melody. Yet it was music done in his first, scorned manner which caused the furor last week-his Scythia Suite, fearfully exhilarating with its barbaric dances, its wailings, its concluding salute to the sun; then his Second Piano Concerto, originally composed in 1913 but lost when the Soviet Government confiscated all Prokofiev property in Leningrad and only recently rewritten from sketches...
Interesting in the light of recent anti-prohibition furor is the report of dry campaigning in the University of Michigan. This year, at least, the success of Ann Arbor's gargantuan and perennial Prom will not depend upon the quality of the neighborhood boot-legger, for when the long expected day arrives, College watchmen reinforced by local police will guard the dark corners where erring stags were won't to drink their fill. It is said that none but the brave deserve the fair and brave indeed will be the undergraduate who under threat of expulsion finds means whereby...