Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...theatrical slogan of the hour. The Man in the Glass Booth asks playgoers to share guilt for the massacre of the Jews. The Great White Hope asks playgoers to share guilt for the oppression of the Negro. Both are dramas of contrition with little internal life; they would scarcely stir, except for the borrowed adrenaline of newspaper headlines, past history, and the emotional sympathies of the already converted. For the price of a mea culpa, the audience is made to feel good by feeling...
...come to Meridian to sleep. Not to make trouble, to stir up the blacks, or to yell at whites. Just to go to sleep. But I made a big mistake, I chose to sleep at the BF Young Hotel, run by the city's richest Negro. After I had paid for the room, I went out to see the city's sights. On my way, I stopped at King Phillip's service station for some...
...leaders from both parties, the Republican nominee believes that when it comes to voting, most of the people who now say they are for Wallace will stay with the major parties. Wallace's pull, adds Lawyer Charles Rhyne, a top Nixon strategist, is "in the excitement he can stir up, not in the votes he can move...
...month pace. It is able to reap a tidy income from large holdings because they are mostly financed by borrowed mortgage money. As a consequence, the value of each share has climbed 20% since the fund's birth in January 1967-a performance creditable enough to stir the interest of some well-established U.S. investment funds in forming similar offshore ventures...
Hoover's report, which came out a full month later than usual, contains a disconcerting analysis of rising crime since 1960, the span of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. FBI statistics usually stir debate. This edition enlarged the argument to include Hoover's motives for its late release. Did he time it to spur the Democrats into taking a stiffer law-and-order stance? Or was he striking back at those party members who urged that he be retired by the next Administration? The FBI insists that the delay was caused by the complexity of the fact-finding...