Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact is that the University seems able to support but one magazine of serious literature. If the existing one falls short a competition is needed to stir it from its lethargy or to replace it. Once more Mother Advocate has tasted the elixir of youth and her opponent has followed the Monthly into oblivion...
Colleges ought to be laboratories for experimentation in discussion and thought. Radicals are valuable to any college community because they challenge and make us justify the existing order. If radicals are needed to stir students from their lethargy, to make them think and analyze the important subjects of the day, let us have more of them, If they didn't exist the world would decay from too much self-satisfaction...
Take "Le Malade Imaginaire" from the theatre of Moliere or any other play on the wiles of the hypochondriac. Tap the vein of comedy that ran through "The Molluse' of blessed memory. Add a smattering from the lore of the psychoanalyst. Stir violently and you will have the deft, original and uncommonly entertaining piece which, under the clumsy and inept title of "Mamma's Affair," arrived last evening at the reopened Little Theatre...
Thirdly, the chief argument by which Red agitators gain recruits in the allied countries disappears with the end of the blockade. There is no other means which these men employ so often and so effectively to stir up a crowd of ignorant people as a denunciation of the allied policy of "starving the Russians...