Word: furor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...furor stirred up by the most visible reform inspired by Vatican II - the modernizing of the rites of worship, most notably the Mass - seems to have largely died down. In the years following the council, the language of the liturgy became English, not Latin; baroque high altars gave way to simple tables; members of what had once jokingly been called "the church of silence" were urged to sing hymns - and often Protestant ones at that (a familiar favorite these days: Luther's A Mighty Fortress Is Our God). Instead of incense and plain chant, parish churches now offered folk...
...media is wont to do with potentially controversial material, it picked up Davis's views, exposed them to the public, and parked furor, causing Davis to regret his role in the whole affair...
Although Hoover dismantled COINTELPRO after its cover blew in 1971, its activities continued informally for several years afterward. Only the decline of the New Left and the general furor over governmental abuses of power as a result of Watergate have brought about a major decrease in the level of its illegal activities to suppress dissent. In this context, it is worth recalling, as Noam Chomsky points out in his introduction to COINTELPRO, that such programs have been carried out under administration of both political parties. They belong to a powerful tradition of restricting the political liberties of leftists which developed...
...Lockheed Aircraft Corp. survive? The question has been asked ever since the Government saved the aerospace giant from bankruptcy in 1971 by guaranteeing the repayment of $250 million in bank loans; it has become more urgent as a result of the furor touched off by revelations about Lockheed's extensive foreign bribery. The scandal brought in a new management, headed by Robert W. Haack, 59, former president of the New York Stock Exchange. Last week TIME Correspondent John Quirt interviewed Haack and other sources inside and outside the company and filed this report...
Carter was publicly embraced by Martin Luther King Sr., who declared: "I have a forgiving heart, so, Governor, I'm with you all the way." Detroit Mayor Coleman Young said that Carter's apology was "satisfactory" and that the furor over his remarks was "a phony issue." Echoed Paul Parks, Massachusetts' secretary of educational affairs and a black civil rights veteran: "The majority of black people across the country are staying with Carter. Some of them are shaky, but they're willing to forgive him. He's got a kind of thing about him that...