Word: ire
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That some war-making bureaucrats were denied free speech last week is. I suppose, unfortunate. But the ire of the Harvard bureaucrats is totally out of proportion. If the Archibald Coxes of this world had expended as much energy in attacking the war as they have in attacking a relatively harmless act (after all, no one was maimed, and no American villages were bombed), perhaps the war would have been over a long time...
...plan affects all types of employment from Buildings and Grounds to the highest level of administration, emphasizing academic appointments. But though it satisfies the Department of Health. Education and Welfare, it has already raised the ire of University women's groups...
...coin and stamp collection news. She does not limit her criticism to New York City but attacks "urbicide" everywhere. Washington's Mussolini-classical Rayburn Building she calls "the biggest star-spangled architectural blunder of our time." Centers for the arts in New York, Washington, and Atlanta arouse her ire with their timid unwillingness to assert conscious modernity. Her criticism also strikes forcefully at the destruction of architecturally significant structures; she favors tasteful preservations with a social purpose, not reconstructed kitsch...
Hamburg is noted for his sensitivity to the idea of academic freedom, and this is said to be one of the few issues which can visibly raise his ire...
Such stories helped make the two newsmen, Arnett in particular, the target of Pentagon ire. But both insist they have been more than fair. "Our mistake," says Arnett, "was in not being pessimistic enough." One military complaint was that he avoided talking to generals. Says Arnett: "All they can give me is their interpretation of events. I'd rather make my own. I don't want Abrams whispering to me about the goddam Thais and telling me I can't quote him. That restricts my reportage...