Word: furor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...furor began when Carter was asked in Indianapolis to explain his recent statement that there was "nothing wrong with ethnic purity being maintained" in neighborhoods. Carter replied that he wholeheartedly supports open-housing laws that make it a crime to refuse to sell or rent a house or apartment on the grounds of race, color or creed. But he opposes Government programs "to inject black families into a white neighborhood just to create some sort of integration." Said he: "I have nothing against a community that is made up of people who are Polish, or who are Czechoslovakians...
...professors have caused as much furor as did James S. Coleman when he suggested last April that court-ordered busing was a failure. He claimed that a new study of his showed school desegregation often drove white children out of city schools, thus causing more segregation. The presumption was, of course, a familiar one in parlor debates on the subject. But it was major news that the highly respected University of Chicago sociologist seemed to have verified it. After all, ten years ago, at 39, Coleman had become a sort of godfather to busing when he released a study showing...
...this hour-long rebroadcast of a BBC show that created a furor in England earlier this month, an interpreter translated Solzhenitsyn's declaration that in the past two years "terrible things have happened." The West, he claimed, "has given up not only four, five or six countries, it has given up all its world positions." He cited the "loss of freedom" in Angola and the Communist victory in Indochina as examples of the West's loss of nerve and spiritual strength. Moral considerations, he charged, have no bearing on politics in the West. "One should not consider that...
...Pusey inherited the sad financial legacy of the Conant years, during which the one major fund drive, the Tercentenary, attempted in 1936 in the middle of the Depression, was a tremendous failure. As a result of the generally poor state of fundraising, Conant attempted cut back faculty positions. The furor these cuts stirred near toppled the Conant administration...
...furor over Marubeni's role in the Lockheed scandal has intensified, the social status of its employees has plummeted. Many workers complain that their families are being shunned or ridiculed because they work for Marubeni. One employee said that his child was nicknamed "Lockheed" by his schoolmates; another complained that his son's teacher displayed a picture of a Marubeni executive in the classroom, labeling it "dangerous villain." Some wives of Marubeni workers have taken to shopping at night to avoid the cold stares of neighbors. Perhaps most insulting of all, Tokyo's Crown Record Company...