Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Futz! is less likely to stir the senses than raise the gorge. Rochelle Owens' play is a sad saga of bestiality. Her preposterous moral is that people are beastlier than animals, particularly to a boy who prefers to make love to a sow. Cyrus Futz (John Bakos) loves Amanda, his sow, like a wife. A nympholeptic human pig gets jealous and goads the village rednecks into slaying the boy, preparatory to killing Amanda...
Robert Kennedy's curious ability--and desire--to stir the enthusiasm of black people, young whites, and other traditionally dispossessed groups may very well accelerate radical changes...
...fascinating mosaic of the contradictory character of the master spy, a man ruthlessly cold and dedicated to Communism professionally, but by all accounts a warm and likable man in his personal life. Philby dispatched hundreds of Albanian patriots to their deaths, in theory landing them in Albania to stir up resistance, but in fact sending them straight into the guns of the Albanian Communist troops, whom he had tipped off. But he worried over some innocent emigrants mistakenly interned as German agents during World War II. He also wept when his pet fox was pushed off the balcony...
...academic disasters" was "the cruelest kind of phrase-making." "The violence of that rhetoric . . . added up to a kind of inhumanity and insensitivity which is all too characteristic of the way white people deal with the Negro people anyway." Monro acknowledged however that Reisman and Jencks "were trying to stir things up, and get people moving toward change...
...Ward committees can take positions on issues, but most of them--at least in Cambridge--don't do anything," Mattson said. He personally hopes to stir ward interest in a state senate redistricting bill, which, in his words, "makes hash of Cambridge." Matson added that "the people who are behind the bill in the Statehouse are candidates patronage jobs concerning election officials...