Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...read a shocking, maudlin, sensational, full-page newspaper ad put out by Ramparts magazine, screaming to the world that "the CIA has infiltrated and subverted the world of American student leaders over the past 15 years," and other shameful accusations. We recognized it as a nasty, cheap attempt to stir up scandal in an effort to boost sales, but what would all of Europe think...
...Quentin Fiore, McLuhan gets his message across more appropriately by juxtaposing his text with pictures. The result is a punchy put-on, to be sure, but that only serves to make a point: McLuhan has never taken himself as seriously as his critics have; his cheerful objective is to stir up some fresh thought...
...Republican Club earnestly seeks to set up free exchanges of opinion with the SDS and others - through debates, panels, policy statements and the like - the better to stir up a politically one-sided Harvard. We do need dialogue but not demagoguery. I hope the chance for such discussion may survive last Friday's unfortunate fracas. Charles G. Untermeyer '68 Vice President Harvard Young Republican Club
...opposition quickly closed ranks. Interior Minister Camilo Alonso Vega, 77, who as Spain's top cop maintains that the Spanish are "the most unruly people in Europe," argued that religious freedom would only stir up trouble, just as the earlier measures granting workers and students more freedom resulted in the present rash of strikes and student riots. On a more philosophical level, Public Works Minister Federico Silva Munoz, 43, contended that granting religious liberty to minority sects would shatter Spain's spiritual unity. The ministers connected with the military supported the views of Vega and Munoz, adding that...
Another reason for the slowness is that the organizers slacked off during Christmas vacation and exam period after a concerted drive in the fall. "If you stir up a lot of enthusiasm and then desert for a few weeks, you kill morale," Raudenbush said. "You've got to keep at it." Apparently impressed by the Jewish Memorial success, the teamsters recently asked SDS Labor Committee to help them organize insurance workers. The Committee declined in order to devote themselves entirely to hospital organizing...