Word: ruckus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seems to be there: the gauzy profile of skyscrapers seen from the Statue of Liberty, the brokers and bums and cops, the lunatic bustle, the claustrophobic alleys and carnival vitality. This gorgeous parody, one of the largest environmental sculptures (other than earthworks) ever made in America, is called Ruckus Manhattan. The space for it was procured by a nonprofit organization, Creative Time Inc., which coordinated the six-month creation, and was donated by the Orient Overseas Association, a shipping company. The buildings, cars, trains, boats and people-from life-size effigies to tiny, comic-strip figures painted on vinyl -were...
...Probing. In mentally dismissing the possibility of violence, a psychiatrist can take missteps with a patient that might bring on an assault. For instance, an emergency-room doctor may start a ruckus merely by coming at a patient with a hypodermic filled with a sedative, which the patient may perceive as an attack. Or an analyst can probe too insistently into a patient's emotional troubles, sparking uncontrollable anger...
...Ruckus-like Play...
Spurr's firing touched off a ruckus on Texas' Austin campus. Several days later, some 3,000 students attended a rally to protest the regents' action. The university faculty voted overwhelmingly for LeMaistre's resignation. Said History Professor Standish Meacham: "It was done in the best Texas bushwacker tradition. He was fired in the wrong way on a trumped-up charge." Lady Bird Johnson, the only regent who abstained from the 8-to-O vote upholding the ouster, said in a choked voice, "No great educational institution can sustain its greatness with the frequent and sudden...
Impact Felt. A similar organization has been started among Stanford alumni, spearheaded by Lowell W. Barry, a wealthy retired businessman. Called the New Founders League, it has-among other things-raised a ruckus over the showing of porno films on campus and a fraternity raffle of a nude dancer. Says Barry: "Some things like that happen on almost any campus, but there was a tendency, before our impact was felt, to be entirely too indifferent...