Word: hubbub
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...banging and clanging got louder and louder, but Paul A. Cantor '66, assistant professor of English Literature, refused to be drowned out by the din. "I will not be stopped," he cried, continuing to lecture despite the noisy hubbub, like Demosthenes shouting against the waves...
Taking Heat. Miller insists that he had to "go for broke" in order to change things drastically. He has steadfastly stuck to that tactic, and hubbub follows him like a swarm of hornets. When he left Massachusetts to head the Illinois department of child welfare, he soon alienated the state's social workers, put the child welfare system into a swivet, and was forced to resign. But Pennsylvania quickly hired...
...arrival of Gerald Ford at a weekend party for journalists in Washington set off more than the usual hubbub. The President, with a bravely smiling Betty Ford at his side, was all tricked out like a cocktail cowboy in a snazzy Western-style shirt suit of blue-gray flannel decorated with white saddle stitching. For some guests, Jerry Ford's new garb, a gift from friends, brought to mind his past uncertain flights of fashion. Greeting Japan's Emperor Hirohito last year on a grand tour of Asia, for example, the President was dressed in a cutaway-with...
Amidst the hubbub, Rote quietly took second place in the bicycle race. Having placed second in golf and taken top honors in tennis, bowling and swimming, Rote, 23, piled up more points than his older and more famous competitors. During the soccer season he had earned about $1,500 playing center forward for the Dallas Tornado. As a superstar champ, he collected $53,400. As a divinity student who aspires to the Episcopal ministry, he was nonplussed by the sudden lucre ("I feel almost embarrassed by winning"). He announced that he would give some of his winnings to charity...
...youngest mayor in the U.S. first caught campaign fever in 1964 during the Republican National Convention. "I liked the hubbub," he says. "It seemed like fun." Jody displayed a flair for leadership at Ayrshire High School, where he was an honor student, manager of the baseball and basketball teams, student council president (during which term he waged a successful campaign to convert one of the classrooms into a student lounge) and school janitor. He suffered his first political setback his senior year, when he lost his bid for the class presidency...