Word: tumult
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...instant analyses of The Pusey Years is bound to be both famous and myopic-famous because. The Years are not over yet, and myopic because the late sixties have put disproportionate stress on one side of Pusey's personality. In the tumult of the last three years, it has been easy to see Pusey's shortcomings-his seeming inability to make either Faculty or students feel he was at all concerned with them-but much harder to see his strengths...
...stiff Big Red defense and battle it up in its own end. With ten minutes remaining in the game, forward Red Jahncke, who was not on the dressing squad in the early part of the season, flipped a shot past Cropper, and the sold out Watson crowd went into tumult...
...clearer that in light of its emotional frustration, one goal would lead to two and a tie game. At 7:20 with Bruin forward Dave Patterson in the penalty box for tripping. Harvard's Steve Owen got the goal, and Watson Rink, filled to bursting, was in tumult...
...from fading into historical limbo, however, Mary Queen of Scots projected herself dramatically into the royal and religious tumult of the 16th century. In death as in life, she was sometimes reviled as a scheming whore, sometimes revered as a misunderstood martyr to her Roman Catholic faith. But she was invariably regarded as fascinating. Antonia Fraser's overlong but richly readable biography demonstrates that Mary's great fascination continues unabated...
...Michael Arlen's immediate subject in The Living Room War is not the staggering charnel house we live in and which lives on us. It is that small, luminous, oracular, electronic avatar called television. Arlen is in passionate agreement with Richard Goodwin who writes: "We pass through all this tumult seated before the inexorable shadows of a TV set-certainly the greatest psychic disturber ever created...