Word: furore
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...your sophomore year, you will recall for example, there was a considerable furor over who should or should not be permitted on campus to interview graduating students for possible jobs. The SDS, playing on a dissatisfaction widely held in our community, made an inflammatory issue out of the presence of a Dow recruiter on the campus, implying that his presence proved the University's insidious complicity in the hated war effort...
Among the results, Pusey said, were the S.D.S.-inspired furor over the presence on campus of a Dow Chemical recruiter in 1967 and this year's insinuations that Harvard's Center for International Affairs is engaged in "complicity with our nefarious Government." It is clear, he said, that "the old McCarthy technique is at work again, but this time-it is a sorrow to have to acknowledge it-by our own, and in our midst." Pusey urged his graduates to "refuse to succumb to cynicism or hopelessness. It is a long way around," he said...
...Last year Criswell, pastor of the 15,000-member First Baptist Church of Dallas, inadvertently brought these trends to a head by publishing a book titled Why I Preach That the Bible Is Literally True. The book enraged the Association of Baptist Professors of Religion, and in the ensuing furor Southern Baptists divided over whether to embrace or reject Criswell's credo...
Other players have written "inside" books on baseball, yet none has created more of a furor than Bouton's "muck-stirrer," as one sportswriter calls it. The reason seems to be that players do not mind being knocked for their playing; it's talking about their playing around off the field that they object...
...what is probably its fall. The party at Lenny's was followed by a scathing editorial in the New York Times. Slander would be preferable to Wolfe's compassion for the traumatized Bernsteins. "It was unbelievable," he writes of Lenny's reaction to the post-party furor. "Cultivated people, intellectuals, were characterizing him as 'a masochist' and-and this was the really cruel part-as 'the David Susskind of American Music...