Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...context of a war that has none of the clear-cut aspects of Pearl Harbor, at a time when the country's internal problems are being examined with unprecedented intensity and emotion, and under a President who, despite all his efforts, has not been able to stir fervor in the hearts of his countrymen...
...purpose of PBL, says Executive Director Av Westin, is "to stir things up, to challenge the status quo of both commercial and educational television...
Westin had his stir even before the first program went on the air, chiefly be cause PBL had not yet resolved its most fundamental internal problem: point of view. If PBL hopes to provide an alternative to much of the pap that fills the commercial channels, it will have to be provocative. But the concern of some of PBL's advisers was that PBL's programming might confuse sensationalism, or at least irresponsibility, with healthy iconoclasm...
...chain-gang picture has been in stir for years. Now it has turned up again, paroled as Cool Hand Luke, a close study of conditions in a Southern prison. Like its most celebrated predecessor, I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932), Luke is the story of a simple man who falls afoul of the law and mechanically becomes destroyed by a so-called house of correction...
Even that sally failed to stir much interest because Nunn for months has been making only moderate noises on racial questions. So negative has the contest become that unqualified partisans are difficult to find. One Kentucky Republican who has given Nunn tepid support complains: "They're either against Nunn because of something he said against Catholics or Jews in the primary, or they're against Ward because they don't like Breathitt or Johnson." The Louisville Courier-Journal endorsed Ward, but faulted him for me-tooing Nunn's positions opposing a state open-housing...