Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...passing visitors and newsmen he knows, he talks as if convinced that the real source of his troubles lies in a soft and complacent national mood that invites the Congress to stand pat-or at least tolerates its intransigence. As he sees it, his task this fall is to stir up public interest for the domestic programs that he believes both sound and necessary...
...first attempt to stir up resistance ended feebly. APRA, the leftist-turned-moderate party denied power in the June presidential elections, issued a call for a nationwide general strike that was to last until the presidency was restored. But Lima's electric lights continued to burn brightly, the buses rolled, most business went on as usual. Anti-APRA unions refused to honor the strike. More important, the generals in the palace were waging a shrewd, conciliatory campaign to win public acceptance...
...strange case of Robert Stroud has been fashioned into an absorbing film that is deceptively calm and emotionally powerful. Burt Lancaster plays the bird man with a firm restraint that never conceals a deep-felt conviction that Stroud should not be in stir at all. Inevitably, this is Stroud's side of the case, as originally unearthed by Social Worker Thomas E. Gaddis in his 1955 book, Bird Man of Alcatraz. Fact is, Stroud, offscreen. was a stiff-necked, arrogant, impenitent man and at least initially a homicidal threat to society. Like Caryl Chessman, he had just enough brilliance...
...aspects of higher education, from what education is and who should have it down to what should be done about campus parking and organized song-fests. The book is controversial--if I may invoke an overused word. And I hope it will have a wide enough circulation to stir up ardent debates hither and yon. Personally, I find little to disagree with; but whether one endorses his conclusions or not, Eble has lined up the main arguments on both sides of each issue without omission and with welcome clarity...
...first breezes of the big windfall began to stir nine months ago, when Chairman Herbert Johnson of the famous wax company invited Manhattan Art Dealer Lee Nordness to lunch in Racine. The company had earlier shown its taste in the arts by building a spectacular Frank Lloyd Wright building that is now a Wisconsin landmark. Now Johnson wanted to find out what the firm could do for U.S. painting. Nordness replied: Buy major paintings from top living U.S. artists and exhibit them as widely as possible...