Word: uproarous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...students accusing Thernstrom have not gone so far as to classify him as a racist. But the euphemism "racially insensitive" seems insufficient cause for the uproar; their actions indicate a feeling that he is more than merely insensitive. Insensitivity is a matter for discussion; racism is a matter for offense and complaint. Implications that someone is a racist should not be expressed in any situation without clear cause...
Imagine the uproar if a television tape were discovered in which, say, Bob Dole argued that only devout Christians and Jews were entitled to serve in government...
...Uproar over the Catholic bishops' statement on aids education and condoms. -- Methodists debate the Trinity and homosexuality...
...university don and historian ordinarily might have been a sad but briefly noted counterpoint to the Christmas season. Instead, the tragedy was catapulted into prominence by the fact that only four days earlier Bennett had become embroiled in a stupendous furor in the Church of England. The uproar, it seems clear, drove him to his death...
Former Harvard professor Timothy Leary, who believes that people should be able to take drugs if they want, caused a minor uproar last month when he gave a speech to 1000 students at the University of Pennsylvania...