Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tensions in Azerbaijan can only further stir Iran's other jostling eth nic minorities-the Kurds in adjoining Kurdistan, the Arabs near the Persian Gulf, the Baluchis and the Turkomans to the east. Last week there even came a brief incursion by the Iraqis across their disputed frontier. The Kurds are most likely to cause trouble next. These flinty, well-armed peasants, isolated in their mountain hideaways, have in the past fought more fiercely for independence than Iran's other dissident minorities, and a cease-fire agreement that they signed last month with the Khomeini government just expired...
Recollections of a Soviet agent stir up a political scandal...
That's about it. The irreverence is not very sharp and not very frequent. One wonders why all the rabbinical groups are up in arms--only a few jokes about big noses and one very funny stoning scene would stir the yarmulke off the most orthodox Jew's head. More telling is a five-minute satire of the entire history of the early Christian church. Having chosen Brian as the true messiah at a sort of marketplace for prophets, several followers start interpreting his actions. Within minutes they have split into different sects, unable to agree why Brian has left...
...unlaundered bills. Starbuck is sent off to a minimum-security prison in Georgia, the least heralded co-conspirator in all of Watergate. He muses later: "It was like being in a wonderful musical comedy where the critics mentioned everybody but me." No sooner is his two-year hitch in stir over than Starbuck runs afoul of more millions. He stumbles into a decrepit old shopping-bag lady in New York who turns out to be his sweetheart from Harvard days. She is also majority stockholder of the RAMJAC Corporation, a conglomerate that owns...
Rosovsky's right-hand man--Ariel to his Prospero, to cast them benignly--is John B. FoxJr. '59, dean of Harvard College. It's Fox's job to implement Faculty policies in the College; since a stir over his housing plan three years ago, he's managed to do so while keeping a pretty low profile among students--despite his 6 ft. 8 in. height. Fox is the final arbiter of policies affecting undergraduate life--everything from how expensive your breakfast is to how spacious your suite is. Fox also wears another hat as chairman of the Administrative Board. Harvard...