Word: furore
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...voting on all sorts of radical political questions. Along with this intellectual ferment went such ludicrous touches as the somewhat elderly campus police linking arms in the basement of Mallinckrodt practicing a flying wedge, should they be called on. Several deans on the college administrative board sat out the furor with the Dow Chemical man, but along the way took students' names and demanded that every participating student turn in his bursar's (identification) card. Many students, unable to participate because of urgent classes--the radical of the sixties is serious--dropped by just to turn in their bursar...
...made, the slow process of pacification has probably suffered a major setback on two fronts. The promise of security in a hamlet may not seem so credible to a peasant who has learned that even Saigon and the U.S. embassy are not enemy-proof. And, amid the furor in the cities, no one yet knows how many pacification workers and members of revolutionary development teams have been assassinated out in the countryside. Fourteen American civilians working in the pacification program near Hué alone were killed last week...
...Near, Bellocchio abandons adolescent hostility for political disdain; the film makes fun of the full range of Italian leftist politics, from the filo-cinese (the sinophiles of the left) to the moderate Socialists, with their progressive pretensions and bourgeois attachments. China's political satire kicked up a furor in Italy. But U.S. audiences are likely to be more amused than annoyed by this story about a rich, bumbling professor who campaigns for local office as a Socialist, while his equally ridiculous Maoist brother harasses him and his colleagues with graffiti, time bombs and police dogs...
...South Korean CIA persuaded the suspects to return home by threats against their relatives or offers of lighter sentences, but the news that they had been taken back to Korea touched off a furor in Western Europe, where most of them lived. France and West Germany, neither of which has extradition treaties with South Korea, lodged official protests with Seoul...
...Grace Bumbry, a Negro mezzo-soprano from St. Louis; her Don Jose was Nicolai Gedda, a Swedish-Russian; the Escamillo was Justino Diaz, a Puerto Rican. The conductor was Zubin Mehta, an Indian from Bombay who now conducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic-and who last week touched off a furor by denying that he was the least bit interested in conducting the New York Philharmonic*Yet what the musical performance lacked in authentic accent was balanced by the thoroughly Gallic staging of French Actor-Director Jean-Louis Barrault...