Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...DeVoto always in such an uproar? Edmund Wilson once asked, genuinely puzzled. Part of the answer is that DeVoto-to use an almost obsolete word for an almost obsolete species -was a curmudgeon. It is Stegner's finest instinct that he does not try to make his curmudgeon correct-just very necessary...
Blocked Avenues. Meanwhile, Kim Dae Jung-the cause of the uproar -is preparing to take a research fellowship at Harvard. "I am as much concerned with politics as ever, and my views have not changed," he told TIME'S Tokyo Bureau Chief Herman Nickel. "But under the present circumstances it has become impossible for me to carry out political activities here. If I wanted to organize a political party, people would not be free to join. If I wanted to make a speech, I would not be able to get a place where I could give...
What was surprising, even to veteran Chicago-watchers, was that public uproar could grow strong enough to lead to a Federal grand jury investigation of the police action and, ultimately, to the trial of Hanrahan, five policemen, and several other officials on charges of obstruction of justice...
Then came the uproar over the firing of Archibald Cox and the spreading realization that the President could resign or be impeached. Suddenly, leisurely hearings were a luxury that the Congress-and the nation-could not afford. Last week there was a sharp crackle of urgency in the air when the Senate Rules Committee began meeting on Ford's confirmation. Said Senator Claiborne Pell: "I believe we all realize that the nominee of today may not only be the Vice President of tomorrow, but the President of next year...
Last week this rather ungainly sculpture caused a flurry of diplomatic exchanges and created an uproar that stretched from the elegant salons of New York's art world all the way back to Laikom, the capital...