Word: tumult
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...revolution" is dying or dead. According to Chicago's Urban Research Corp., which monitors student unrest, that is anything but true. In fact, major campus disruptions have increased this year to a rate of more than one per day. Last week, as the spring riot season neared, the tumult worsened at troubled campuses across...
Looking out mournfully over the tumult in a resort meeting hall called the Playhouse, New York State Democratic Chairman John Burns last week asked the 345 state party committeemen: "Why have chaos when you can have order?" The question was rhetorical: New York Democrats regard chaos as their birthright. Even so, as they gathered to designate the regular party ticket for Governor, U.S. Senator and other statewide offices, they outdid themselves...
Scare Tactics. For all the tumult over the past decade, U.C. has added three new campuses, bringing its total to nine, and upped enrollment from 56,000 to 106,000. Its faculty now numbers 7,600 and its courses 4,000. Nobel laureates have increased from eight to 14. To be sure, some students have had to enroll elsewhere in the U.C. system when the campus of their choice was full. But all have been accommodated...
...major concern: a jury might infer that the organizers of a peaceful demonstration had riotous intentions even if hecklers or militants started a ruckus. After the convention, Clark refused to invoke the new law despite Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's contention that itinerant "terrorists" had caused the tumult...
...seems to be as dedicated to renewal as those who have left ecclesiastical ranks in the cause of another form of Christian service. Says a Jesuit scholastic from California, Lawrence Goulet: "Is there hope for the future of the church? Does the bear live in the woods? Some see tumult in the church as destructive decadence. I see it as a sign of vitality." Seminarian Lyndon Farwell contends that "those of us who are staying with the institutional church do so not looking backward to what has been, but forward to what...