Word: scandalizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...striking the Greek Orthodox Church with disturbing frequency. In 1962 the new Archbishop of Athens resigned shortly after his election to that primatial office upon being exposed as a homosexual; two years later, Bishop Philippos of Drama was dethroned for adultery with his housemaid. Now a much more widespread scandal has shocked Greece. This time the fuss is not about sex but that other great fascinator: money...
...fancies, lies at his feet; perhaps-but Lisbon is snoring. Patients, assuming that a man of his means must either be a very expensive doctor or a very bad one, stay away in droves. His fine friends, however, arrive by the dozen to chatter about literature, politics, the latest scandal; to lure him off to a café, the opera, a dinner party, an assignation. Carlos resists, but not very vigorously. In a few months, he finds himself living the life of a Latin playboy and wondering a bit anxiously if anything serious will ever happen...
...gave it a more nationalistic foreign policy, becoming a spokesman for other less-powerful nations at the drafting of the U.N. Charter, but proved unsuccessful at home as head of the Opposition Labor Party, primarily because of his ultraliberal defense of many Communist causes (the 1954 Petrov spy scandal), which split the once-powerful Laborites and cost them every election since 1951; of pneumonia; in Canberra, Australia...
When the rain clouds lift from Mt. Rainier, it is revealed as a major embellishment of the state of Washington. And when the clouds of scandal and discontent lift from the campus that lies under Rainier, it appears as an equal adornment. This fall the University of Washington is relishing clear academic weather, part of a new climate that began in 1958. That was the year when Charles E. Odegaard took charge...
Fisheries & Far East. Odegaard moved to Washington from his post as dean of the University of Michigan's College of Literature, Science and the Arts*-and into a mess. A scandal over a private slush fund to entice top athletes to Seattle had got Washington's all-too-famous football team kicked out of the Pacific Coast Conference. A loyalty-oath requirement imposed by the legislature was demoralizing the teachers and scaring off bright recruits to the faculty; such was the state of timidity that Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer had been banned from a campus appearance...