Word: turmoil
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...College spent five years studying 624 foster children, many of whom had been abused, abandoned or neglected by their natural parents. In their book Children in Foster Care, Fanshel and Shinn report that youngsters who were never visited by their real parents in the foster homes showed greater emotional turmoil than those who were, as well as some declines in their IQ scores. But children who were seen at least occasionally by their real parents seemed far less troubled in their new settings. Conclude the researchers: "It is better for the child to have to cope with real parents...
Most good ole Southern boys, in times of trouble and turmoil, strive to affect an air of bold insouciance. Few can match the macho mood of Bert Lance. Since his forced resignation as budget boss last September, Lance has continued to have the ear of his friend Jimmy Carter, and he is not shy in flaunting his special status to prospective business partners. He has trotted around the world flourishing Diplomatic Passport X-000065, which allowed him to bypass customs and which the White House intervened to keep for him. Earlier in March an organization called Friendship Force, founded...
...figures on TV? Why do the mothers (in Good Times and the defunct That's My Mama, for example) always seem to be fat? (The famous black matriarchy? Some residual white image of Mammy? Of Aunt Jemima?) Why are black families so often shown to be in screaming turmoil, the air bruised with insults? Why are there not black images of success through education and accomplishment, instead of the old Amos 'n' Andy routines of chicanery or the newer, grittier pimp-flash and hustle...
...affair with the wife of the distinguished conductor Hans von Bulow finally ended in her divorce and her marriage to Wagner in 1869. In celebration of that event, Wagner composed the Siegfried Idyll, which, in its tranquillity and relative simplicity, contrasts sharply with the stereotype of Wagnerian heaviness and turmoil. Unlike his operas, it is modestly scored, an intimate love poem which Wagner never meant to have published. It is, in addition, an immensely difficult piece to perform--the orchestra is required to evoke a tranquil, exalted atmosphere, and then maintain this mood through twenty minutes of technically exacting music...
According to Haldeman, the reaction was galvanic. "Turmoil in the room, Helms gripping the arms of his chair, leaning forward and shouting, 'The Bay of Pigs had nothing to do with this. I have no concern about the Bay of Pigs.' " Recalls Haldeman: "I was absolutely shocked by Helms' violent reaction. Again I wondered, what was such dynamite in the Bay of Pigs story?" In fact, the CIA officials then did ask Acting FBI Director Pat Gray to slow the money tracing-and he did for a week...