Word: stirred
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SOMETIMES ONLY DEATH WILL STIR THE living. Last week the continuing horror at three deaths from a fire bombing -- of a 51-year-old grandmother, her niece and her granddaughter -- and the torrent of denunciations that followed the deaths did just that, shocking German officialdom into wakefulness. Demonstrations that began the day after the Nov. 23 attack in the northern city of Molln persisted through a funeral gathering in Hamburg that attracted 10,000, and then into last weekend, when a crowd many times as large gathered in Munich. Images of marchers carrying banners asking such questions as HOW MANY...
...fresh words: all those spanking new particles and objects have to be called something. But the sewage of cultural theory and philosophy is a pernicious influence, taking your average happy noun ('problem'), and disfiguring it with a meaningless suffix. Take a few more such words; apply prefixes at will; stir boldly for a decade; before long, an entire generation will have on its tongues an assortment of unaesthetic and utterly meaningless words. And there, comrades, lies the rub. Their complete uselessness means everyone will use them--simply for want of a more precise descriptive term. You'll thematize your timetable...
...Russian state" and force the President out. "Their strategy," says a U.S. official, "is to invoke slogans in an attempt to excite the baser political instincts." But in championing causes like the troubles of Russian nationals in the other republics, front leaders have potent emotional issues with which to stir up anger against Yeltsin...
...left to Bill Clinton to stir up the cauldron of Lady Macbeth controversy about his wife's role. The President-elect volunteered at a press conference last Monday that his wife "talked a lot and knew more about some things than we did" at a dinner for the Democratic leadership in Little Rock. (House Speaker Tom Foley and Senate majority leader George Mitchell did not respond when asked later if that was true...
...that you really won't meet people at your own party, especially if you're pretending to be responsible. The other, more important moral is that with a little innovation, three common dorm rooms can be transformed into a steaming pit of hedonistic recreation; just add Harvard students and stir. I am hopeful that a few prospective partythrowers are reading this article right now, and have been inspired to plan their own daring soiree. In the meantime, be on the lookout for our next event--bigger, better, and more refulgent than the last. How does the weekend after Thanksgiving Break...