Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even in paperback, the Alexandria Quartet, Anthony Powell's The Music of Time series, Gide's Journals and all of C. P. Snow are apt to stir poolside suspicion. Anyone who takes his summer reading seriously must weather such risks-or else tuck his Doctor Zhivago inside Doctor No. The lowbrow in search of status will reverse the process and hide Sexus under, say, Koestler's The Act of Creation. The camouflage problem is more complicated for the compulsive careerist, who always gets "some good new books" before he leaves on vacation. But how can he bury...
...after three years of service. It has been the richest and most satisfying period of my career," he said. "Throughout my life I have been deeply committed to the rule of law. The law gives form and substance to the spirit of liberty and to mankind's sacred stir for justice. It now comes that the President has asked me to join in the greatest adventure of man's history-the effort to bring the rule of law to govern the relations between sovereign states. It is that or doom-and we all know it. I have accepted...
Dutchmen is not Von Amsberg's pedigree but his war record: at 17 he served for several months in Italy as an enlisted man in Hitler's Wehrmacht-and nowhere in Europe do memories of the Nazis stir deeper resentment and outrage than in Holland...
...ministry's efforts to build up the Negro community include other projects that stir up less heat-and have sometimes been set up with the blessing of Mississippi whites. Operating on an annual budget of $260,000, about one-fifth provided by the World Council of Churches, the ministry's nine full-time employees have organized relief, health and educational programs in several Mississippi towns, including a civil rights training center in Edwards, and is helping to set up preschool programs for poor children in four communities under Project Head Start (see EDUCATION...
Eternal significance has never been the forte of collegiate nostalgia, and 1965 will find little in its freshman year that altered the world--or even the College. The HSA Linen Depot System was the Class' first controversy, but '65 remained oblivious to sophisticated CRIMSON and upperclass attempts to stir discontent. They trekked to their depots, found their packages properly "full of sheets," and went off happily...