Word: furor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Although Harvard has invested nearly 40 million dollars in companies with South African affiliates or subsidiaries, the University has escaped much of the furor which swept through other Ivy colleges over such investments...
...AMID the furor over the Stennis and Whitten amendments, the forced resignation of HEW Civil Rights Chief Leon Panetta and Senator Abraham Ribicoff's blistering attack on Northern hypocrisy, the nature and precise scope of existing U.S. law on race and the schools have largely been obscured. At issue are two sets of vital distinctions: the difference between integration and desegregation, and that between de jure, or governmentally imposed, and de facto, or accidental residential segregation...
Last week the furor reached new heights when the board circulated proposed new rules that would force most merging companies to change the way they explain the deal to shareholders. The method used in many of the 6,000 mergers announced last year was to treat the combination as a pooling of interests. In effect, the accounts of two firms that merged were treated as if they had always been one. Abraham Briloff, professor of accountancy at Manhattan's Bernard M. Baruch College, compares the technique to bikini bathing suits. "What they reveal is interesting," he says, "but what...
...have been invited to fill in for Steinberg. Unfortunately, there persists the tendency to stick to the warhorses and shy away from experimentation, as witnessed by the disastrous concerts given by Carlo Maria Giulini. His histrionic performance of the "Pathetique" Symphony pleased the Friday afternoon matrons but caused a furor which led the members of the orchestra to request publicly that several Boston critics be banned from future performances. Seiji Ozawa's interpretation of Carmina Burana was much better, and Claudio Abbado's choice of new music was a refreshing change...
...Furor over Forty Few Vatican announcements in recent years-apart from Pope Paul's birth control encyclical-have caused such a worldwide stir as the abrupt downgrading of more than 200 saints in 1969. Among the popular figures dropped from the universal liturgical calendar were St. Christopher, St. Nicholas (the original Santa Claus) and England's patron St. George. Now English Roman Catholics are about to recapture some of their lost ground: Pope Paul VI is planning to canonize 40 Roman Catholic martyrs who were condemned to agonizing deaths on the orders of Anglican rulers in the 16th...