Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...protests have so far failed to stir the mass of Italians-and so have the elections. Reason: the average Italian has never had it so good, Italy last year boasted a growth rate of 6%, sec ond only to Japan among industrialized countries. One Italian family in two now has its own car; virtually all have a television set, and often a refrigerator and washing machine to boot. The nationwide impact of television is relentlessly nibbling away at Italian regionalism, making Italians in the south more like Italians in the north, and making both of them hunger for the good...
...hallucinogenic, the characters are monstrous, and the style is Beverly Hills baroque. Yet Condon's grotesque farce is often merely the truth as seen in the wobbles of an amusement-park mirror. The book, which drifted past most critics and customers recently without creating much of a stir, is not on a par with the mad master's Manchurian Candidate. But in its own way, it deserves a small place on the shelf that includes Nathanael West...
...fact, the study will have done the nation a service if it does nothing more than stir up meaningful debate. That it already is doing. So intense is public interest in its findings that a soft-cover version published by Bantam Books is already well on its way to the bestseller lists. In what a company spokesman called "the most phenomenal sale of any book in recent years," the report sold at a clip of 100,000 volumes a day in its first three days...
Student Courts. While coed dormitory hours and visiting rights in men's dorms still stir violent arguments on many campuses, Penn has assigned all such decisions to a ten-student, ten-teacher committee. This group recently extended women's curfews to 1:30 a.m. on weekdays and 2:15 a.m. on weekends, gave men the right to entertain girls in their rooms until 2 a.m. on weekends. Infractions of undergraduate regulations are handled by separate men's and women's courts composed of students. There is also a student-run traffic court and a student board...
THERE are legitimate issues here, and, at this crucial time in everyone's personal history, it is important to make them clear now and to act on them now. It is a fine thing to stir up moral indignation. Perhaps it will get those who care sufficiently upset to think seriously about avoiding service in this war. All the leadership -- wherever it is -- in the movement here has succeeded in doing is confusing people. At a time when solidarity as well as coherence is all-important, SDS, for all its highly-touted organizational abilities, still suffers from a kind...