Word: furore
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Edward J. Hanrahan, BC's dean of Students, says that the Heights lacked "editorial responsibility." But, in 4fact, it was for exercising its true editorial responsibility--informing its readers of the machinations which BC bigwigs were conducting--that the Heights incurred the wrath of the censors. Part of the furor which led to the lockout stemmed from the paper's publication of "obscene" material; but what was a series of muckraking exposes in the best journalistic tradition. The Heights revealed that the BC administrators had "inadvertently" filmflammed a student scholarship fund out of $3 million and diverted the funds...
...Edward J. Hanrahan, BC's dean of Students, says that the Heights lacked "editorial responsibility." But, in fact, it was for exercising its true editorial responsibility--informing its readers of the machinations which BC bigwigs were conducting--that the Heights incurred the wrath of the censors. Part of the furor which led to the lockout stemmed from the paper's publication of "obscene" material; but what really nettled the BC administration, we suspect, was a series of muckraking exposes in the best journalistic tradition. The Heights revealed that the BC administrators had "inadvertently" film-flammed a student scholarship fund...
...about the indignity of being considered only sexual objects, a few of the feminists have unfortunately gone on to exaggerate the proposition. They now claim that women are almost universally victims of rape. Never since the Sabine women were put upon by the Romans has there been as much furor about this crime as in the past year or so. This outcry has less to do with violence in American cities than with the radicals' all-embracing definition of the offense. Last April, they organized an all-day "rape workshop" in Manhattan, where they discussed such topics as "rape...
...furor El Topo is neither a cathartic masterpiece, as its disciples believe, nor a con job, and Jodorowsky is neither messiah nor mountebank. There are scenes of brilliance in El Topo, followed by sequences of unwieldy pretension. The film is by turns comic and profound, hysterical and pompous, fully complex enough to deserve more than a simple...
...graves. This government does roughly equivalent things in Vietnam, but when they happen at home, that will be fascism. But fascist repression at home will remain unlikely, not because the government is incapable, but because the American people will not allow it. The deaths of four students caused a furor...