Word: furor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conference he had called in Baltimore. Only one reporter showed up to hear him hold forth. "Nationally, the pace of and interest in the left has dropped way down," said Kunstler. "I think there is a feeling that the movement is dead. There just isn't the same furor...
...handling the expected boom in enrollment. Roman Catholic Bishop John J. Russell, meanwhile, has let it be known that parents of prospective students for the area's diocesan parochial schools, which have an 8% black enrollment, would be interviewed to weed out those fleeing integration. Amid all the furor, many parents are beginning to adjust to the idea of integrated housing as an alternative to busing. "I hear some talk now about integrating this neighborhood," says one suburban mother. "Before the consolidation, I didn't hear...
Stray Rounds. The Communists, however, were on the losing side in another respect-a national furor over the desecration of the ruins. Last month the Communists abruptly expelled Bernard Groslier, the imperious, Cambodian-born Frenchman who had tried to carry on his restoration work under the occupation, and jailed some 40 local villagers who had been helping him. According to Viet Cong defectors-some of whom brought out snapshots of themselves taken in the temple area-several stray Communist and government mortar rounds had also fallen on historical buildings. A former V.C. captain, Tran Van Ky, has conceded that...
...furor brought an unwelcome influx of journalists, whom the opportunistic local fishermen charged $280 per round trip from a Tasmanian port. But now the interest has ebbed, and Jane has been left alone to write poems and start work on a book, play the flute and dive for crayfish and abalone to supplement her diet of cereal, canned goods and homegrown vegetables...
Beyond Freedom and Dignity contains no new findings and expounds no new theories. He recommends no specific changes in society, but only says that we are capable of making them. It is in no way a breakthrough, either as psychology, sociology or political science. Why then, the furor? In Agnew's case, certainly, because the Vice-President needed an easy target. (Agnew went so far as to lump Skinner in the same category with "progressive educators"--a classification which both Skinner and progressive educators will find amusing.) In the case of Time, because the popular press is always in need...