Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...improving because of the shortcomings of the program. Regan is very eager to change all this. He talked enthusiastically yesterday about two thing: raising funds and organizing some fall activity. He wants to start a mailing campaign to Harvard alumni who have played lacrosse in an effort to stir up some interest which might bear financial fruit. This appears to be the only way that the team will be able to get the money it so sorely needs...
...Start. Front Runner Pompidou, an astute analyst of French politics, is neither unaware of nor unimpressed by the potency of a possible third force. "They mix and mix, stir and stir, hoping the soup will be good," he said just before the referendum, and Pompidou has taken care to do some stirring of his own. He has talked with some centrist politicians and, in a political statement of faith (slogan: "A New Start") worked out at his country home last weekend, he promised to give the Assembly a greater say in running the government-a centrist obsession. He also decided...
...amelioration of the manifold blemishes of our society in such a way as to recall the distressed and angry, young and old, to work patiently and seriously together, charitably, and reasonably and on a basis of knowledge, in a fresh effort to build a satisfying society that will stir and elicit loyalty...
...iconoclastic writings. His signal offense was The New Class, published in 1957, in which he characterized the Communist bureaucracy as every bit as oppressive, materialistic and hierarchical as capitalism. On his release in 1966, he was prohibited from engaging in "political activity"-a usefully flexible admonition not to stir up controversy. But once again Djilas has defied Tito, his old comrade-in-arms, and brought out The Unperfect Society in the U.S. The Yugoslav regime has not yet reacted...
...done to everything else. Harvard was right in calling in the police to get those people out-there are people there to get an education. It's not right in a democratic society to go into secret files. It's none of their damn business-they just want to stir up trouble...