Word: furore
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...vice president of the United States has resigned and a new item--perhaps the climactic one--has been added to that chapter of our history books entitled "Watergate." But the net effect of all the, furor is likely to be little...
...movie, John the Apostle will be played by a woman and Jesus will meet Mary Magdalene in a brothel and be introduced to group sex. The Love Affairs of Jesus Christ, for which the Danish Ministry of Culture has appropriated some $125,000, is already kicking up an international furor. In Copenhagen, 5,000 youthful Christians marched in protest, and from the balcony of his summer palace in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, Pope Paul spoke forcefully to a group of pilgrims about the "ignoble and blasphemous outrage." Two days later, an outfit called "Catholic Moralists" threw homemade bombs at the Rome...
...abduction made little sense, Kim's subsequent release was even more puzzling. He says that he owes his survival to two things: his fervent praying and the furor his kidnaping raised in the Japanese and American press. Kim plans to accept a fellowship at Harvard this fall, but he may not be allowed to leave Seoul again. He is currently confined to his house...
...many of the ethical questions about the procedure remain unsolved. For the past several years, a study group of the National Institutes of Health has been working on a set of guidelines covering the use of aborted fetuses for research purposes. Last week, in the wake of a furor created by public reaction to this proposal, the NIH bypassed its panel and recommended instead a code that would effectively prohibit all research on aborted fetuses...
Chicago's Ravinia Festival had not had such prestige and excitement since Seiji Ozawa stepped down as music director in 1968. Part of last week's furor was over Soprano Beverly Sills, unfurling the druidical delights of Bellini's Norma. But even more of it was over the short, pudgy, bespectacled white man with a modified Afro who ambled out to the podium and called the Chicago Symphony to work with a mighty sweep of his left fist...