Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...playwright. His play is an often witty variant on a persisting theme, perhaps all the more persisting because it poses an insoluble question. The Fighting Cock concerns a retired general disgusted by a world he finds filled with "cheats" and lost to honor. He would like to stir up a movement to get rid of the "maggots." Against this testy idealist rooted in the past, Anouilh sets a number of figures who accept the way of the world, sometimes with an eye to the future. A radical laborer and a reactionary aristocrat, a pretty young wife (Natasha Parry...
...again sound like tongue-in-cheek I seem somewhat as a smart aleck about something that's very so so wonderful." Paar: "I think you're loaded." Rooney: "I'm making a puzzling situation out of myself to you." Paar (to audience): "Don't stir him up or we're dead...
...crash of Huff's tackle can stir the Giant bench to bellowing glee, set the rabid fans in Yankee Stadium to rumbling out their own rapid-fire cheer like the chugging of a steam engine : "Huff-Huff-Huff-Huff-Huff." When Sam is on the field, the toughest fans in the U.S.'s toughest sport see what they came...
...Yale production created a stir in drama circles up and down the Ivy League, drew in droves of New Haven academics and New York critics, and was shipped off to Brussels by the State Department to represent the American theatre at the World's Fair. Charles A. Fenton, Assistant Professor of English at Yale, hailed the New Haven production in the pages of the Nation as a "moving and exciting play" notable for its "superb craftsmanship." "J.B., it's a pleasure to report, is good theatre and a fine display of a writer of genuine intellectual substance who has nevertheless...
...Countless films and TV plays have made the state pen almost as familiar a setting as Tombstone-the hostages with shivs at their throats, the leader in the besieged cell block on the phone to the warden, the Spartacus-in-denims who invariably fails to make it out of stir. Giving the old plot a new twist, Novelist William Wiegand (who teaches creative writing at Stanford) has produced a tale of a prison riot that is at once a violent melodrama, a psychological quiz and a political morality play...