Word: scandalizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WAPSHOT SCANDAL, by John Cheever. The decline of a rich old family can be messy and public rather than slow and sequestered. When it is, the process can be funny as well as sad. That is the case in this brilliant, merciless novel...
...Wapshot Scandal, Cheever...
...Agent" of the Yankees. The present scandal erupted when Petrobras President Albino Silva, 54, a peppery army general appointed last year, started a one-man campaign against corruption and Communist influence within the company. He stopped all hiring (8,000 new employees were added during the two preceding years), looked into shady dealings of Petrobras executives, twice blocked strikes approved by a Petrobras director, and cracked down sharply on lavish publicity spending. Silva took his evidence to Brazil's President Joao Goulart. When word leaked out, a newspaper article appeared with statements accusing the general himself of engineering...
...this fall before the "sex scandal," the committee was instructed to make a study of the freshman parietals situation. Committee members interviewed University officials and freshman Proctors, and tabulated questionnaires filled out by 800 freshmen--about two-thirds of the class...
...committee's decision not to extend hours this year to the "erroneous publicity" given to the parietal issue this fall. "Before the controversy broke, my guess was that this one concession was all the Masters were willing to recommend to the faculty," he said. The so-called sex scandal killed all hope of even these extensions, he said...