Word: furor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kennedy asked each in turn whether he would "stop, halt and cease raising false hopes" if an objective test found Laetrile worthless. All four agreed. But before the session ended, it was clear that no Government-sponsored trial would appease Laetrile's fanatic supporters or settle the emotional furor over the drug...
...best example of this kind of attack is Trilling's response to the furor created last spring when her original publisher refused to go ahead with the book unless Trilling removed some remarks about Lillian Hellman in an essay defending American liberals' role in the anticommunist movement of the '50s. (A classic liberal, Trilling considers communism a terrible danger. In a 1967 essay included in this volume, she says the war in Vietnam is a serious error, not because it represents American aggression, but because it is not the best way to stop the Red Menace.) Trilling refused to comply...
...this year on a joint program that included the Afro affiliation. Rivera calls Foster's experiences within the department "the Ephraim Isaac case" of this academic year, a reference to the former associate professor of Afro-American Studies who was denied tenure by Afro in 1975, sparking a major furor within the department...
Permanent Hiding. The caused a furor in Chicago. In an editorial, the Sun Times cited legal organizations that had called Wilson "unqualified" for the bench. The Tribune viewed the whole affair as a "tragedy." So heated was the criticism that Wilson called a press conference to defend his decision and reiterate that the state had not proved its case "beyond a reasonable doubt...
...Labor officials also blamed the Carter Administration for Begin's nomination of Dayan as well as the Likud victory. Said one prominent Labor member: "Just about everything Carter did helped to defeat us. I hope he's happy with the government he helped create." Bowing to the furor, Dayan quit Labor at week's end and sent back his membership card...