Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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News of the shift toward the U.S. came clear to Canadians last week, caused more of a stir than the R.C.A.F.'s similar decision (TIME, Oct. 6). Some critics of the new policy complained that Canada is becoming too dependent on the U.S. for military muscle. But there was really no alternative; the U.S. has what Canada need's. Said a Canadian colonel: "Canada will have an army again...
...losing it. And the production, as directed by Harold Clurman, sheds helpful light as well. Eric Portman's Con is often unintelligible, but it conveys a dynamic power of acting, a demonic possession of the role; and Kim Stanley as Sara shows something of the same fierce stir and brawl. In the role of Con's wife, which O'Neill sentimentalizes a little, Helen Hayes provides a needed counter-effect-a muted violin against the snarl of brass...
...statement in a local newspaper regarding John Foster Dulles's visit to Harvard last weekend has caused considerable stir within the University...
...Stirring the Young. Bedecked with the Nobel prize, the Order of Merit, the Legion of Honor and sixteen honorary degrees, Eliot next month will join France's small but select Academic Septentrionelle and take a seat left vacant since the death of Rudyard Kipling. Among the birthday salutes this week is a book of personal tributes (T. S. Eliot: A Symposium for his Seventieth Birthday; Farrar. Straus & Cudahy; $5). Its contributors, alongside the usual literary figures, include English schoolboys and girls between the ages of 14 and 18. most of whom sound so solemn and professional as to suggest...
...riddled by President null Duvalier's army. The next day Dominican rebels were nabbed loading arms on another C46 in Miami, apparently with the suicidal intention of invading Dictator Rafael Trujillo's ironclad state. And for every expedition caught, many more plotters get through to stir up big and little trouble down south...