Word: furor
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After seven months of unbridled furor and frenzy in the name of Mao Tse-tung's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, China continued last week to try to re-establish some measure of stability. Out of Peking's white-tiled Municipal Party Headquarters trudged hundreds of Red Guards, bearing their bedrolls and belongings. Only recently the chosen shock troops of Mao's purge, the youngsters had been evicted by government edict from their erstwhile headquarters and dormitory. They chucked their possessions into waiting army trucks and were driven out of the city and presumably back to school...
...HAVE just read this curious volume which in a green-jacketed edition has caused such a furor among our gendarmerie. As a novel it is both erotic and ascetic. I might well imagine a smile crossing the features of the mysterious Miss Trepan (and I have no doubts that that is what she is) as I say this. So much the better. In the curious text which follows (see below) she has indeed created a work...
...furor demonstrates a typically American paranoia. Americans are repelled by the idea of any government connection with an organization thought private. Upon learning of a connection such as the CIA's with the N.S.A., there is no attempt to find out if the N.S.A. was indeed subverted; guilt by association is assumed...
...Action for Boston Community Development--Boston's anti-Poverty agency--if the manuscript is published at all. Thernstrom's critical analysis has already provoked matters of anger from local politicians and officials, and the author frankly admits that the publication would probably "set off a minor furor." The issue is particularly sensitive because the Ford Foundation both helps the Joint Center and is also involved with ABCD. Moynihan insists, however, that both his and Harvard University Press's hesitation in publishing the manuscript is due not to fear of hostile reaction, but rather doubts that a work of such limited...
...talked-about subject in Spain last week was something that did not happen: the failure of the Cabinet to pass a bill that would at last grant a measure of religious freedom to Spain's tiny non-Catholic minority. The reason that the non-passage caused such a furor is that the religion issue is the focal point of a struggle between government factions about how fast and how far Spain's new trend toward liberalization should...