Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...uproar over the escape destroyed whatever effect Ulbricht might have expected from his newest propaganda campaign about the good life in East Germany. Again his subjects showed that they were ready to vote against him with their feet-and with their lives...
...Buddhists, annoyed by Big Minh's surprising ouster, again threatened major trouble. The occasion: the first anniversary of Diem's now infamous police raids on the pagodas during last year's Buddhist uproar. Addressing 4,000 faithful in Saigon, Thich (Venerable) Tarn Chau vowed that "Buddhists will rise against the government if it begins to resemble the former Diem regime."* The Buddhists proceeded to make a series of difficult if not impossible demands, including elimination from the government of all former Diem officials and the final release of four generals whom Khanh had deposed when he took...
...inversion of the old "one-party press" complaint that Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman used to make against Republican publishers. It is a feeling that surfaced during Richard Nixon's presidential campaign and exploded after his run for the California governorship. It was dramatically reflected in the uproar in the San Francisco Cow Palace last month when Dwight Eisenhower jabbed at "sensation-seeking columnists and commentators...
...burst through police lines and pelted the prisoner with blows. "Give him to us!" they cried. "Kill the monster!" Their target was the confessed killer of little Jean-Luc Taron (TIME, June 19), and he seemed elated at the commotion. Turning to the flics, he yelled above the uproar: "They're right! 1 am a monster...
...anti-Callas factions have been squaring off ever since the celebrated diva opened in Norma a month ago. But the big uproar began when at one performance she reached for a high C and nothing came out, eliciting a cry of "Take her to the cloakroom!" from the gallery. Despite the furor, Callas and Norma were judged a triumph by the Paris critics. WHO CARES ABOUT A LITTLE B-FLAT, headlined Paris Presse. This week, at the conclusion of Norma's run, everyone agreed that Director Georges Auric, 65, who was hired two years ago on his promise...