Word: furore
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...midst of all the furor, Capitol Records has issued the Original Cast Album, and it is, frankly, a disappointment. The score itself is not disappointing, in fact quite the opposite is true-it is Stephen Sondheim's finest to date and one of the richest theatre scores ever written for a musical play. Nor are the voices in any way deficient. It is purely the production of the album which has taken the fire out of Follies, and needlessly...
After the ceremony vets marched two blocks back to their encampment-object of much Justice Department furor-where they proceeded to clean up trash and plant grass. At 6 p.m. this evening only several hundred remained although a large contingent had moved west of Potomac Park, the area being used for camping by tomorrow's marchers...
...notorious case of U.S. Actor William Berger, 42, which has created a furor over Italy's undiscriminating narcotics laws and the country's faulty legal machinery (TIME, April 5), finally came to an end last week in a Salerno courtroom. Eight months ago, in a search for drugs along the Amalfi coast, Italian police entered Berger's rented villa while he was entertaining dinner guests and found marijuana (nine-tenths of one gram) in a snuff box, less than enough for one joint. That was more than enough for them to arrest Berger, his wife Carol...
...local people," says David Carey, the project manager, "but we didn't know how. They were frightened out of their wits." Because of another communication gap, Boise Cascade's state-approved plan to create a hotel and resort complex on the island of Hawaii started a furor among people opposed to just about all speculative subdivisions. The company has sunk $30 million into the development but has not yet sold the first...