Word: furore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Moynihan himself is a historian by training (Ph.D., Tufts, '61), sociologist by bent, politician by inclination, and intellectual gadfly by design. He stirred a furor that has not yet subsided with a 1965 report on the disintegration of the Negro family. When he turned 40 last March, his Cambridge staff placed an array of hats on his desk with the note: "To the only man we know who could wear them all so well...
...Bunting's position within the hierarchy, then, has pushed upon her duties which might be more efficiently handled by her subordinates. But the furor over apartments which resulted in the hunger strike developed not just because Mrs. Bunting was thrust into the conflict at its outset, but because her position has been poisoned in the past by her own terrible public relations sense. She has shown a gift for alienating students; her conception of her job has involved her, time after time, in altercations which have reduced students' confidence in her and cast her in an unfavorable light...
There is evidence, in fact, to suggest that Mrs. Bunting has consistently disregarded wide-spread student opposition to aspects of her project. The bitter protests over the destruction of Gilman House two years ago, last year's furor over flat room and board rates, and the off-campus houses' fight for breakfast subsidies are indications that at least a few Cliffies want an option to the restrictive dormitory living Mrs. Bunting would like to see effected throughout Radcliffe. Girls like the strikers, who are clearly a minority, are afraid that the intimate atmosphere of the small wooden frame off-campus...
There is evidence, in fact, to suggest that Mrs. Bunting has consistently disregarded wide-spread student opposition to her pet project. The bitter protests over the destruction of Gilman House two years ago, last year's furor over the flat room and board rates, and the recently concluded hunger strike are indications that Cliffies want an option to the restrictive dormitory living Mrs. Bunting would like to see effected throughout Radcliffe...
Ironically, the only outrage stirred up at the festival was based not on what was seen but what was read-and by the French-speaking audiences at that. The furor concerned the Britishmade film Ulysses (TIME, March 31). which carried subtitles in French. A few of James Joyce's occasional vulgarisms failed to travel well in translation. One familiar Anglo-Saxon phrase, for example, was accompanied by a subtitle that read Mon anus royal Irlandais! Other subtitles, which by necessity were shortened to keep pace with the spoken dialogue, carried little of the poetic fantasy and whimsy of Joyce...