Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Practical Goals. With his inauguration assured, Kubitschek went off on a hurried, three-week airborne tour of the U.S. and Europe, to win friends and stir up foreign interest in Brazil's vast problems and opportunities. The trip also served the useful purpose of gaining added prestige for Kubitschek, and giving Brazilians a chance to catch their breath and reflect on what manner of man they had chosen. Even his supporters are likely to find him something of a novelty. Brazil has had generals, statesmen and intellectuals for Presidents, but never before a businessman type like Juscelino Kubitschek...
While Workshop directors recognized that radio drama had to be sound drama, it counted words as an important type of sound to stir the imagination. The program counted among its writers Stephen Vincent Benet, Archibald MacLeish, William Saroyan, Dorothy Parker and Norman Corwin, who created an effective impressionistic style of radio writing...
Causes: Some divine, some all too human. The goddess Athena, angered because Prince Paris had awarded her half-sister Aphrodite the prize for beauty, decided to stir up the Greeks against the Trojans. It was not hard to do. Troy was rich in tribute taken from Greek merchants. Moreover, Paris himself was the young spark that fell into this tinder box. His rape of Helen, Queen of Sparta, whom he carried off to Troy in a fast galley, brought the Greeks to the shores of Asia Minor in 1186 ships...
...first mechanical pipe organ, a water-driven monster called a hydraulus, so awed the ancients that they enshrined it in a temple of Venus. A 5th century organ at Jerusalem thundered forth such a gigantic noise that admirers listened from the Mount of Olives, nearly a mile away. The stir that the organ is creating today is almost as awe-inspiring...
Actually, few economists think it possible for the economy to keep rising with the same speed of 1955. But though the U.S. may rest to digest what it has already produced-and the breather may stir up cries of "recession"-the forecasts for 1956 are impressive by any standard. For 1956, Administration economists predict a total G.N.P. of $403 billion, 4% higher than 1955. Personal income is expected to jump to around $310 billion, about half the 1955 advance, while savings hold steady at the 1955 rate. Though industrial production will not equal igss's 11 % jump...