Word: furore
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Furor. Interestingly, it was Warner himself who delayed taking any action about the sitdown of the Constellation's crewmen on the San Diego pier, thereby making the Navy seem even more permissive. Zumwalt's staff claims that he was on the point of sending a formal written protest to Warner when the Secretary finally acted and had the men bused off to their trials. Nevertheless it will inevitably be Zumwalt who will be hurt by all the publicity...
...furor will continue. Congressman Edward Hebert, a hard-line traditionalist, is opening hearings this week in the House Armed Services Committee on the Navy's lack of discipline. And the Kitty Hawk returns this week to San Diego, where its officers will continue with courts-martial against the blacks involved in the October riot...
...even if the Watergate controversy is stilled, the larger furor over Nixon's campaign funds may go on, particularly if George McGovern has anything to say about it. "I have no doubt but what this issue will catch fire," said the Democratic candidate, striking his own rhetorical match. "You cannot make a serious bid for the presidency of the United States any more and cover up a secret fund of $10 million...
Abrams arrived in Washington on July 16 and began Pentagon briefings meant to prepare him for the normally amiable question-and-answer ritual that usually precedes confirmation of presidential military appointees. But furor over the Lavelle affair has made the issue politically sticky, and a final date for Abrams' hearing has been repeatedly pushed back. Democrats would like to have the Lavelle-Abrams issue argued before the Senate and the public later in the campaign, preferably in October; Republicans want to get the case out of the way well before the election, but also wished to avoid conflict with...
Wagner, a musical and political revolutionary who liked nothing better than a good row, would probably have loved it. Whether he would have loved what Bayreuth did to his Tannhäuser, the cause of all the furor, is another matter. Director Götz Friedrich managed to turn a tale of a man caught between the forces of spirituality and sensuality into a pointed parable of Fascism defeated by Socialism...