Word: furor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Editor Bryant, in an article, "The Church and the Homosexual," proposes that the church ordain gay ministers and bless "permanent and faithful" gay unions. But the article likely to cause the most furor is one by Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, authors of Lesbian/ Woman. Among other controversial points, they raise an outlandish suggestion: that because lesbians have removed themselves from the "battle of the sexes," they are "the only women capable of loving...
...furor was provoked by two unrelated acts of violence that occurred last month. In the first, a 22-year-old neo-Fascist named Nico Azzi tried to blow up a crowded Turin-to-Rome train by planting a sizable charge of TNT in a washroom. Fortunately for the 500 passengers, the detonator Azzi was wiring exploded when the train suddenly lurched. Bleeding heavily, Azzi was placed under arrest and taken to a hospital. Police later revealed that he was a member of the extreme neo-Fascist Ordine Nuovo (New Order). Although he had no proven connection with M.S.I., Azzi...
However, while the approval of the new building plan was officially unanimous (4-0, with three absences), the move has brewed a storm of reaction. The furor is based mainly on the Committee's decision to re-build both Rindge and Latin rather than renovating Rindge within the existing structure and re-building Latin alone. The renovation plan would have been approximately $3 million cheaper than the one adopted...
...Corporate Responsibility is asking all three to issue an annual report on its political contributions, including "brief descriptions of positions communicated between high-level personnel...and high-level officials of the federal government concerning any matter of unusual significance to the corporation." Particularly in view of the continuing furor over IT&T's attempt to buy the Chilean election, Harvard may well decide to support these resolutions...
...current furor in Italy derives from a complaint by a Roman journalist last fall that his telephone was being tapped. A crusading investigator named Luciano Infelisi, 33, who works for the Rome Magistrature as a sort of district attorney, decided to check further. With two aides, he equipped an unmarked van with a pair of antennas and it toured the center of Rome, trying to pick up the signals of transmitters hidden in phones or cables. Eventually the investigators concluded that hundreds of lines were being tapped, including those of the Bank of Italy, the Communist Party, various newspapers...