Word: stirs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...this reviewer would like to have seen more discussion of them. Just how the theories that Ulam discusses are reflected in actual present-day Labour policies is a problem that could well bear further analysis. As he points out, "The power of a philosopher lies in that he can stir up great waves of feeling and agitation. The philosopher's helplessness is due to his inability to control the farther waves of his thought." Thus the "general reader" of Ulam's book is left wondering at the end how much the carefully analyzed political theories currently affect Labour policy...
...five-year-old Mary Jane Vickery showed no signs of reviving. Tongay took a chance. He tried the push-pull, and she soon began to stir. After a night in Broward Hospital, Mary Jane went home, fully recovered...
...short, in Roman Catholicism's stronghold, The Miracle caused little or no stir. Its maker, Rossellini, was so far from being put in the church's doghouse that in 1949 he got the Vatican's approval of plans to film a life of St. Francis, in which members of the Franciscan order took part...
Concerning "false expectations . . . and much speculation" on the faculty resolution that a theatre be built at Harvard, last Thursday's CRIMSON editorial admitted the necessity "to stir up interest . . . for a theatre . . .", but the editorial presented the darker side of the situation rather than the lighter side...
...University's priority list of expensive projects, and the items above it--scholarships and General Education, for instance--are not ones to be easily displaced. Therefore the only way the theatre at Harvard can become a reality is for an interested group (of students or faculty) to stir up interest among theatrical alumni and get them to provide the money for a theatre...