Word: furor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said a leading Dutch progressive priest at the time. "An unimportant voice." Soon, by a decree of Pope Paul VI, that "unimportant voice" will speak as bishop of some 1,000,000 Roman Catholics in the diocese of Rotterdam, where he has suddenly become the focus of a growing furor in the Dutch church...
...furor, Congress seems unlikely to order any curtailment of Section 235. The program has broad bipartisan support, partly because it provides low-income families with housing at considerably less cost to taxpayers than public housing projects. The disclosures, however, may jar the FHA into taking a more protective attitude toward low-income families that buy houses. One complaint in the study involved a Washington, D.C., woman who made a deal to pay $14,000 for a house that had changed hands three weeks earlier for only $7,100. It was in such bad shape that embarrassed FHA officials last week...
Oblivious to the furor, the A.A.A.S.'s nominating committee picked Seaborg as one of its presidential candidates last June. The organization's board of directors immediately raised the conflict-of-interest question. At least eleven of the 13 board members-including Environmentalist Barry Commoner (TIME cover, Feb. 2)-questioned the choice of Seaborg, whose election they felt was certain because the other nominee was a relatively unknown acoustical expert, Richard H. Bolt. Furthermore, even though the A.A.A.S. had not yet acted on Muskie's request, the board members pointed out that one of the organization...
...Governance Committee stresses, the furor over social conscience and corporate responsibility is raging at just the time that the University is beginning to fear its own fiscal collapse a few years hence. Most readers will find the quantitative data in the report more useful than the conceptual background. A table of operating income and expenses records the historic shift in the financial base of the University. Half of the operating budget depends not on the billion-dollar endowment but on annual gifts and government contracts-if this outside money dried up, it would be very hard times indeed...
With the same memorializing fervor that seized the U.S. after John Kennedy's death, the French are busy inscribing the late Charles de Gaulle's name on squares and avenues in hundreds of towns throughout the country. One rechristening has created a national furor: the Paris municipal council's unanimous but hasty decision last week to change the Place de 1'Etoile to Place Charles de Gaulle. Judging from newspaper editorials and talk in the bistros, vast numbers of Frenchmen seemed to feel that the famous site of the Arc de Triomphe and the Tomb...