Word: stirred
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minds of most had long since been i made up. Even the once-powerful opinion of Jesse Jones, now expressed in the editorial columns of his Houston Chronicle, caused little visible stir. The former Secretary of Commerce blasted the loan as unbusinesslike and inflationary, proposed instead a $1,000,000,000 RFC loan secured by the collateral of British holdings...
Swarming through the pile in billions of billions, these neutrons stir up a storm of unrest among the atoms of every element in it. Some are turned into atoms of different chemical elements, some into different isotopes of the same element. Nearly all are "hot," shooting out rays and energy. Every element is made radioactive...
...such, the story cannot fetch a complete response from modern, morticianed man. The circumstances lie outside his experience; it is not the reality, it is only the intensity of Antigone's emotions that can stir him. In Sophocles' version, the plot at least has the psychology of a superstitious age and a religious people behind it-although even this has not kept Sophocles' Antigone from sometimes being accounted a young woman with a decided martyr complex...
...happened the pictures to date were the first to prove merit in such backgrounds, and they have paved the way for such as you suggest. We hope they will be forthcoming-but if you stir things up by such editorials as the copy sent us, you may mess up the possibilities by splitting reception...
...late Sidney Howard; music by Raymond Scott; produced by Michael Myerberg) is the season's loveliest production and most charming failure. A retelling, with music, dances and pageantry, of a 500-year-old Chinese classic, it never quite catches the inner glow of art or the outward stir of theater. There should have been either less spectacle or less story. As it is, the old tale is retold at considerable length, but loses much of its flow and human feeling through gorgeous interruptions and sumptuous distractions. What's more, neither the writing nor the acting has quite...