Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...organization of army ants. He learned that the Fuegians ate their women in a hard winter (instead of their dogs, which could catch otter). Like a great artist, he was half child, half sage. Nothing, from tiny bugs to the giant fossilized Megatherium, was too small or great to stir his delight. He saw not only the kinship of beasts with man but the kinship of man with the beasts...
...complete, and Gallo personally brought it from Champaign, Ill., to New York-it sat beside him in a first-class Ozark Air Lines seat. At first the package was too bulky to get the seat belt around, so Gallo was obliged to unwrap it. That caused quite a stir on the plane. "The hostesses came on the intercom," says Gallo, "and announced that they were pleased to have Myra Breckinridge on the flight with them today...
...Hooker report's sobering implication that society has been grossly unfair to the homosexual is sure to stir controversy, and its recommendations are bound to be adopted only slowly. Still, the research makes clear that Americans can now recognize the diversity of homosexual life and understand that an undesirable handicap does not necessarily make everyone afflicted with it undesirable...
...probably overestimating the enthusiasm left for a curriculum project whose outcome is highly uncertain. There will be some stir nonetheless when a Harvard Dean stands up asking for change...
...many war critics. He has at least succeeded in scaling down the war. Some troops have been withdrawn, the draft has been reduced and casualties have been drastically cut. Last week's report was of 64 U.S. dead, the lowest number in nearly three years. He has tried to stir Hanoi and the "provisional revolution ary government" into active negotiations at Paris, only to find no break in the stone wall of Communist intransigence. Yet the disenchantment that M-day incarnates is a political reality, and it is partly of his own making. He campaigned on the promise that...