Word: furor
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...over the Pi Eta Speakers Club and the What is to be Done problems with Wellesley. Harvard feminists recently have had a lot to keep themselves busy. Lowell House Drama Society's current staging of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House resists the temptation to capitalize on this furor. By shifting the play's emphasis from feminist to humanist, the production loses none of the original interpretation's power while finding a deeper and more universal message...
Colorado's Governor causes a furor on the issue of dying...
...cause of all this furor is a plan by U.S. Architect I.M. Pei to build a 66-ft-high glass pyramid smack in the center of one of the sacred precincts of French culture: the courtyard of the venerable Louvre Museum. The structure, which will be lighted at night, will be surrounded by three smaller pyramids connected by triangular pools and fountains. The whole design in itself resembles a huge frozen fountain. It will be the centerpiece of a comprehensive expansion and reorganization of the Louvre ordered by French President François Mitterrand. No price tag has been...
...have known the cancer risk for the past ten years. But the Federal Government has been slow to act, prompting nervous state authorities to begin testing and in some cases banning food products shown to contain traces of the chemical. Last week the Environmental Protection Agency responded to the furor by outlawing the use of EDB as a pesticide for grain and by recommending national standards for grain products already tainted by the chemical. EPA Administrator William Ruckelshaus, who during a previous reign at EPA banned DDT in 1972, announced ceilings of 30 parts per billion of EDB for ready...
...household word, but Duncan Hines, Betty Crocker and Wonder Bread are. So when government officials recently discovered significant levels of the pesticide, a potent carcinogen, in a host of grain and cereal products, a warning cry went out. In the wake of these discoveries, and the public furor that followed, William Ruckelshaus, director of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), last week suspended the use of the chemical on grain products...