Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Buds on the trees. Girls on the Charles. Spring in the air. Within the Vag's innermost soul, an Urge, long hibernating, began to stir, yawn, stretch itself. Vag thought of all the girls he didn't know,--then tried to think of one or two he did. There was that red-head at Smith. He had written her a couple of weeks ago. Maybe it was Spring at Smith, too; maybe she had answered. Vag dashed down to the mail box, but no letter from her. Only a very large and very official letter from Milwaukee...
...local radio stations in the U. S. and several in Australia, might have heard the voices that Edison and others recorded speaking scratchily from the past. Set in modern, radio-dramatized transcriptions under titles like Voices of Yesterday, History Speaks, etc., the old recordings recapture moments calculated to stir the memories of oldsters and give youngsters shivery earfuls from beyond the grave...
...higher power, somewhat simplifying, somewhat exaggerating, but tremendously intensifying. Playwright Hellman makes her plot crouch, coil, dart like a snake; lets her big scenes turn boldly on melodrama. Melodrama has become a word to frighten nice-nelly playwrights with; but, beyond its own power to excite, it can stir up genuine drama of character and will. Like the dramatists of a hardier day, Lillian Hellman knows this, capitalizes on it, brilliantly succeeds...
...play a passive role in the struggle for repeal this year is undoubtedly true. For there is some question as to whether this oath does really endanger civil liberties. And, even if the law is a menace to intellectual freedom, it may not be wise for Harvard to stir once more local antagonism by advocating its repeal...
Reading fat, second-rate novels nowadays is like watching the wake of a ship: they stir up a lot of suds, produce a certain hypnotic effect, and a few hundred yards back, leave no trace...