Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Arab sector." Even though Koenig's recommendations were considered unacceptable in Jerusalem, Haim Kubersky, Director-General of the Interior Ministry, supported Koenig's right to make them. Said Kubersky: "A Jewish majority in Galilee is a legitimate goal." Perhaps. But if anything seemed bound to stir up the kind of political consciousness among Israeli Arabs that worried Koenig, it was exactly the type of program that Koenig proposed...
Downward Revisions. The number that caused all the stir is a complex mathematical composite of twelve* important economic indicators. Of these three were largely responsible for the drop: the layoff rate in the manufacturing sector (it rose), the length of the average work week, and the dollar value; of contracts and orders for new plan and equipment (both declined). But Julius Shiskin, commissioner of labor statistics, believes there are technical aberrations in the layoff and work-week statistics and that after recalculation they will be corrected for the better. Other factors taking the sting out of the August index drop...
...appear in the November Playboy. The result of five hours of interviews given over a three-month period to Writer Robert Scheer, the Playboy article quotes Carter on such substantive topics as U.S. intervention in foreign countries, multinational corporations and the Mayaguez incident. But none of these created a stir...
Network anchor men-men of vast influence but little power-are ideal moderators. Their job has evolved curiously. Ambitious people lust after it. To be an anchor man is to be sought after by hostesses and courted with wary deference by politicians; to cause a stir in restaurants; to be highly visible and highly paid. The nice-guy qualities needed-a pleasing presence, articulate spontaneity, neutral manner-seem easily imitable but are not. Each year local television stations clone platoons of handsomely competent news readers, some of whom are expensively promoted to the big time but do not make...
...Chaucer of The Canterbury Tales appears only in the author's purloined formula: toss some interesting strangers together and stir. The plot is launched by English Professor Rigby Short, whose opera libretto, $4000, is about to be performed at a large Midwestern university. The locale resembles the University of Iowa, where Bourjaily has been associated with the writers' workshop for the past 16 years. (In 1969 an opera for which he wrote the libretto, $4000, was staged there.) The novel's cast is composed of a gaggle of graduate students, some local singers and several professionals from...