Word: stirring
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Still, I guess I should write about something. I admit that I will really miss writing columns, even though I always thought my column name was rather stupid. When compared to a "Mark My Words," a "Stir Frey" or even a "Casey at the Bat," "Varelitas" just doesn't crack...
Then came the profile "Stir Frey" wrote about Gicewicz and his roommate, Harvard tight end Kevin Collins, who also took a semester off to play another year. In the article, "Stir Frey" described Gicewicz as a "philosopher on football." I couldn't believe it. How could football be philosophical...
...have a theory as to why. It's 'cause nothing happened in the good ol' USA this holiday season. Sure, by invading Panama, our faithful president tried to stir up some yuletide cheer. But that just didn't cut the turkey. There was a revolution going on in Rumania! They were electing a playwright president in Czechoslovakia! They were dancing in the streets in East Germany! And it was boring as hell back home...
Except in rarefied intellectual circles, articles that appear in the Cambridge, Mass., journal Daedalus (circ. 14,000) seldom stir up much of a fuss. But a pseudonymous piece appearing in the quarterly's winter issue is kicking up a storm. Titled "To the Stalin Mausoleum," the pessimistic assessment of the Soviet Union's ability to transform itself both economically and politically is obviously modeled after George Kennan's famous 1947 Foreign Affairs essay, in which Kennan outlined the concept of containment of the Soviet Union. While Kennan wrote under the byline "X," the Daedalus author identified himself -- or herself -- only...
...Trabis registered in West Germany, most are expected to be ditched for Volkswagens even as the drivers dream of Mercedes-Benz, Audis, BMWs and Porsches. And while Trabants account for less than 0.5% of the passenger cars in the Federal Republic, they have caused a stir. "Almost every day we get letters of complaint," says Bonn Environment Minister Klaus Topfer. "The Trabant is a nuisance...