Word: furor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expense free trip to the Brown campus (probably paid for by Brown alumni). But Vujovic didn't want to go to Brown -- "I wanted to go to Harvard because that was the American school to go to," -- and his decision to pick Harvard over Brown caused a mild furor in Providence, where the admissions people felt that Harvard had "stolen" their prospect...
...congressional furor building against Nixon's policies is especially ominous. In his budget message, the President did not specifically threaten to impound funds that Congress might appropriate for the programs that he wants to eliminate. He did not have to; no Representative or Senator could be unaware that the President already has decided to impound roughly $4 billion that Congress wanted spent this fiscal year on highways, control of water pollution, and farm and other programs. His tactics have unified Congressmen of every ideology against what they consider a defiance of their constitutional power to control spending...
Announcement of the arrests created a furor in Israel. Angry neighbors scrawled "Spy" on Vered's front door and threatened to burn down Kupfer's house. Conservative Knesset Member Shmuel Tamir turned the incident against members of the coalition government who have been urging that Israel return some of the occupied territories in exchange for peace with the Arabs. Said Tamir: "Israeli youth hears daily from persons in high office that Jewish settlement [of occupied territories] is oppressive colonialism. Such preaching finally pushed young people into opposing the 'oppressors.' " Left-wing spokesmen retorted that Israeli youth...
...starts at the movies. The furor over violence in movies reached its crescendo with A Clockwork Orange, but it started with Peckinpah's Wild Bunch, and no discussion of cinematic fascism is complete without Straw Dogs. At the beginning of the year came the realization, by Pauline Kael and others, that the movies had begun to pipe fascism into the mind of Joe Moviegoer. That the primitive, unquestionably macho preachings of Peckinpah and Kubrick, as well as the less subtle portrayal of Dirty Harry Kellerman by Don Siegel, depicted a cultural regression...
...furor was not. The FBI came under heavy criticism for shooting out the tires. Director Gray even admitted that his judgments "were not necessarily perfect." The Air Line Pilots Association was outraged-especially since it was obvious that Southern had been careless in allowing on its plane three men who fit the classic skyjacker "profile." ALPA President J.J. O'Donnell threatened to call a nationwide pilots' strike if stringent anti-skyjacking measures are not enforced. Something more has to be done. There have been 387 skyjacking attempts worldwide since the first one in 1930; of those, about...