Word: furor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Amid the furor, Adlai Stevenson seemed the least perturbed of all, calmly turned the other cheek and said of his assailants: "I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school...
Franz Thedieck, State Secretary for All-German Affairs, said recently: "Of course we would like to see Germany reunited, but if there were conditions of freedom in East Germany the existence of one single German state would not be absolutely necessary." Existential Philosopher Karl Jaspers created a furor by suggesting in 1960 that his countrymen must accept changes in the map of Germany as part of their liability for Hitler. Many Germans now accept his thought: "The only thing that counts is freedom. Compared with that, reunification is a matter of indifference...
Civil rights raised more furor. At an executive meeting of the House of Bishops the night before the Congress opened, the Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S.A. endorsed the Washington civil rights march next week, and passed a resolution urging both laymen and ministers to join it. But there were some quiet dissents from Southern Episcopalians. "The resolution was not the way to accomplish anything," complained Bishop George Gunn of Southern Virginia. "Mass meetings don't help anybody." And at an open session of the Congress, Layman Francis T. West of Martinsville, Va., complained that by using Christianity...
Back & Forth. Among federal regulatory agencies, the CAB seems to have a special aptitude for trouble. In recent months, it created an international furor by its attempt to block scheduled transatlantic fare increases (only to compromise later), enraged both U.S. regional carriers and the British by refusing to let the U.S. carriers buy British short-range jets, and kicked up a ruckus in the airline industry with its highhanded advice to Pan American and W. R. Grace to sell Panagra to Braniff. "I'm doing the job the best way I know how," says Chairman Boyd, "and I expect...
Nguyen Huong's death caused Buddhist protest demonstrations and hunger strikes all over the country. While the furor over his death rages, Buddhist leaders have ruled out further suicides until they can again reap the full propaganda advantage. Waiting in the wings, however, are three more suicide volunteers, including an aged Buddhist nun. Not intimidated, Diem's sister-in-law, Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu, continued to preach the hard line against the Buddhists. "If they burn 30 women, we will go ahead and clap our hands," said Mme. Nhu. "We cannot be responsible for their madness...