Word: furor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...could understand and better the furor which this book has engendered if he had not read the book. Skinner, Pierce Professor of Psychology, has been attacked by fellow scholars, as any academic who publishes a controversial book always is. He has also made the cover of Time magazine, been editorialized about and against in half the papers in the country and even reviled by the Vice-President--who, one feels sure, has not read the book...
...City Solicitor, and the election of Cambridge's favorite liberal politician--Barbara Ackermann--to the mayoralty post. Ackermann's being named mayor is doubly important in view of the fact that the School Board elections have given a 50-50 split to "liberals" and "independents," meaning that the furor over Superintendent of Schools E. Frank Frisoli '35 will finally be calmed, by Barbara Ackermann with her tie-breaking vote as Chairwoman of the School Committee. On other issues as well she will side with the CAA-endorsed members, Peter G. Gesell, Charles M. Pierce, and David A. Wylie...
Despite the government's last-minute success in court, the victory is far from complete. The furor over Cannikin is but the latest expression of citizen discontent with the relatively unchecked freedom with which weapons are commissioned, tested and deployed. In the years since World War II, there have been approximately 500 atomic-and hydrogen-bomb tests disclosed by the AEC, almost all accepted without serious challenge in Congress or across the country. Those days are clearly over...
SINCE 1901, when the Swedish Academy chose the first recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature and bypassed Leo Tolstoy, the awards have often been surrounded by controversy. There is still a furor over last year's pick, Soviet Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn, whose works (Cancer Ward; The First Circle) expose the authoritarianism of Soviet life. Fearing that he would not be allowed back into the U.S.S.R., he has not dared travel to Stockholm to accept the award; and the Swedish embassy, fearing an adverse reaction from its Soviet hosts, refuses to stage a public ceremony for him in Moscow...
...Edward J. Hanrahan, BC's dean of Students, says that the Heights lacked "editorial responsibility." But, in fact, it was for exercising its true editorial responsibility--informing its readers of the machinations which BC bigwigs were conducting--that the Heights incurred the wrath of the censors. Part of the furor which led to the lockout stemmed from the paper's publication of "obscene" material; but what really nettled the BC administration, we suspect, was a series of muckraking exposes in the best journalistic tradition. The Heights revealed that the BC administrators had "inadvertently" flimflammed a student scholarship fund...