Word: furore
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...have always fought for control over the minds of their fellows, but it is only recently-largely because of the furor over brainwashing-that the methods of gaining such control have been openly and widely debated. In a new book (Battle for the Mind; Doubleday, $4.50), British Psychiatrist William Sargant lays out a pat theory to explain as essentially the same not only political brainwashing and extorted confessions but religious conversions as well. The all-purpose key, according to Sargant, is to be found in the theories of Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849-1936), the Russian physiologist and would-be psychologist...
Reischauer said last night that Tsuru "had been terribly hurt" by the experience and that "he thought that he had been embarrassing the people that had invited him to this country." Reischauer added that this incident has given the Communists an excellent opportunity to "stir up a furor...
Walking into his press conference last week, President Eisenhower stepped right into the furor growing out of his budget troubles. "Your Administration program in Congress is running into some stormy weather among Republicans as well as Democrats," said the United Press's Merriman Smith, referring to the biting Senate attack delivered by Arizona Republican Barry Goldwater. "Do you think it is possible that this may be due to some diminution of political power on your part...
...Principality of Monaco supports itself from man's gambling instincts, but the Commonwealth of Massachusetts thrives on sustained attempts at eliminating this type of vice. This was the aim of the state Crime Commission, which expired quietly last March 31 amid loud blasts of furor concerning its achievements in reform...
From these exchanges, some pundits drew the conclusion that the Secretary of State and the President had knocked down Author Beal's two points. Taking a cool look at the week's furor, however, the New York Times concluded that Secretary of State Dulles had "left Mr. Beal's central thesis substantially unchallenged.'' As for the Quemoy-Matsu question, the Times pointed out: "Mr. Beal's book did not say that President Eisenhower had made a 'commitment.' The burden of Mr. Beal's report was that Chiang had misgivings about...