Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proposal likely to stir controversy is that General Education be divided into only two fields, the humanities and the sciences. The Government Department, among others, objects to this scheme, which would put some Government courses into each broad category...
Johnson will never stir the nation with his words, will never invigorate it with his example. But there are reasons to believe that on matters of policy Johnson will not suffer from an absence of ideas or new programs. First, Johnson has retained a Kennedy tradition. Although they have scarcely been publicized for fear of causing overconfidence, eleven "task forces" composed of one hundred special Presidential advisors are studying such problems as economic and social welfare, government organization, federal-state relations, and civil rights in order to suggest new areas of legislation. To each group has gone the command...
Indian Premier Shastri made the week's most sensible speech, among other things chiding the Africans for their own racial discrimination against Indians, pointedly rebutting Sukarno by insisting that "our policy must not be confrontation but cooperation," causing a stir by suggesting that the conference send a mission to Red China urging them not to test their nuclear bomb. The delegates quickly ducked that idea, but also resisted the more incendiary language of Sukarno & Co. The conference painfully put together a sweeping final communiqué damning "neo-imperialism," predictably citing South Africa and Angola, but preposterously including even Puerto...
...dialogue was intended to stir consciences rather than save souls, and it seems to have done just that. Said a farmer: "Now it's O.K. to talk religion in the feed mill." A teen-aged girl was so moved by the discussions that she gave $40, all her savings, to her church. Hearing of a Negro G.I.'s disappointment in not finding a home, a landlord immediately offered him an apartment. The local Catholic and Protestant clergy, meeting for the first time while preparing for the week, found the experience so agreeable that they have set up monthly...
...this time, and that means plenty is going to happen, none of it original. The characters, except for a regulation Blimp (Stewart Granger), are stir-type stereotypes: a bomb-tossing boyo (Mickey Rooney) from the I.R.A., a Little Caesar (Raf Vallone) with eyes that smoke like gun barrels, a twitchy-faced psychopath (Henry Silva) so hipped on homicide that he murders babies when he runs out of adults. What's more, the plot is a weary old war horse: the villainous heroes, who fight at the start to save their own skins, fight to the finish to save...