Word: furor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...life, which he departed in December at the age of 92, Hammer was a textbook case of furor Americanus: a bullying blowhard with an ego like a Mack truck, whose main aim was to parlay a genius for negotiation (which he had) into a Nobel Peace Prize (which, luckily for the prestige of that award, he never got). His career as humanitarian and Maecenas was loud, insubstantial and based on hype, although he did do one good thing for the National Gallery in Washington by giving it a major collection of old masters drawings, many bought with the advice...
...pieces perceive the city as a hopeful development. Canaletto reveals a romantic view of urbanity in his Imaginary View of Padua. A panorama of carefully distributed monuments reflects an idealized vision of the city. His pastoral image suggests a culture and refinement completely lacking both Stella's furor and Hopper's desolation...
...furor over Eduard Shevardnadze's resignation had the air of a dry run for a much bigger event that suddenly seemed entirely plausible: Mikhail Gorbachev himself quits in disgust or exhaustion or defeat, and the world is abruptly confronted not just with a new Soviet leader but a new -- or perhaps an old -- Soviet Union...
...forgotten that--unlike many of our students who attended the best public and private secondary schools offering the finest educational resources--significant numbers of athletes did not have such advantages that would likely have increased their SAT scores. Nevertheless, intercollegiate athletes do well academically at Harvard. While much public furor exists over the poor graduation rates of athletes at many colleges, varsity athletes here not only graduate, but a majority do so with academic honors. Studies have shown that athletes here report high levels of satisfaction with the college experience and that they are likely to be unusually accomplished...
Last year, there was a furor on campus, or at least in faculty circles, over new guidelines for restricted speech among Harvard students. This phenomenon was sweeping the country--professors and administrators deciding what students can say and how they can go about saying it. The ultimate absurdity was reached on the Tufts campus when certain zones--actual physical areas--were delineated where students had certain rights and where they...