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...exhibition halls of State Fair Park surrounding the Cotton Bowl. Not all the groups who had booths were of the straight, nonpolitical type characteristic of Campus Crusade. One called the People's Christian Coalition was more radical in its approach to the Gospel, and caused a ruckus at a midweek meeting when some of its members joined with Mennonites to hold up a CHRIST OR COUNTRY banner and chant "Stop the war." They reflected a feeling among a minority of evangelicals at the conference that Bright's brand of Christianity is lacking in social concern...
...meeting was adjourned. Members retired to the lounge for port, but the dissidents created a ruckus in the library, cackling and hooting over some novels by Waugh...
...message, if it can be called that, seems to be that the remedy for marital discord is a coupling in the linen closet, that rebellion is raising a ruckus at the country club, and that happiness is a discarded towel. As Turman and Scriptwriter Lorenzo Semple Jr. (Pretty Poison) go for the simple solution, they favor the easy laugh. "Relax, enjoy the air," Alren tells Lisa, and there is a quick cut to a truck spewing exhaust. There are, in addition, the usual number of shafts directed at high-priced psychiatrists, high-pressure businessmen and-everybody's favorite-middle...
Disrupting courtroom decorum is an occasional tactic of defendants and even defense lawyers willing to risk violating the canons of their profession. Often with the help of an intemperate judge, they manage to raise a legal ruckus that may very well provoke a mistrial or a judicial error likely to be reversed on appeal. Though the U.S. Supreme Court has not yet laid down rules for obstreperous lawyers, it held last year that a judge has broad powers in dealing with unruly defendants. He can have them gagged or bound, expelled from his courtroom or cited for contempt...
...more than a decade the independent Roman Catholic publishing house of Herder & Herder of New York has been the most adventuresome in its field. Four years ago it won praise, and in church circles a degree of notoriety, for the erudite but controversial "Dutch Catechism.'' That ruckus will seem a mere parlor game compared to the brouhaha that is likely to greet Herder's latest effort, a show-and-tell encyclopedia of sex called The Sex Book...