Word: ire
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...attacks on the CPB, moreover, seem somewhat misdirected. The agency accounts for just 17% of all public-TV funding; the rest comes from individual subscribers, corporations and other sources. The shows that have drawn the most ire were produced without CPB help at all. Tongues Untied was made by Berkeley lecturer Marlon Riggs for $175,000, $5,000 of which came (through two intermediary sources) from the National Endowment for the Arts. Maria's Story, which cost $225,000, was funded by Britain's Channel 4 and other sources...
...subject of this woman's ire is a smoking camel named Cool Joe, the cartoon character that has been the centerpiece of a catchy ad campaign by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company...
Like other University officials, Rudenstine would not comment on Jeffries' views on race, which have drawn ire and skepticism from others in the academic community. He said he has only second-hand knowledge of the professor's public statements...
IWRITE THIS, it would seem, at the risk of drawing the ire of many Asians and "politically correct" liberals at Harvard. I might even alienate some of my friends. But political correctness has come down to something too important to ignore: No one self-reflects...
...marginal and impotent. Meanwhile, a considerable and very well-subsidized industry arose, hunting the lefty academic or artist in his or her retreat. Republican attack politics turned on culture, and suddenly both academe and the arts were full of potential Willie Hortons. The lowbrow form of this was the ire of figures like Senator Helms and the Rev. Donald Wildmon directed against National Endowment subventions for art shows they thought blasphemous and obscene, or the trumpetings from folk like David Horowitz about how PBS should be demolished because it's a pinko-liberal-anti- Israel bureaucracy...