Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...professor has injected fresh spirit and purpose into the Republican Party in a key state. More important, he has demonstrated anew that one man, against odds, can cause a mighty stir...
Some of Novelist Gold's lines are finely foolish-Dan, roaring Omar on the Lake Erie beach, is "a Demosthenes with pebbles under the tongues of his shoes." One or two images are apt to stir the soul-Dan and a buddy, sneaking out of a second-story window, "vlooped down the drainpipe like two messages in a department-store tube." Dan lusts after Rosalie Fallen, rubs faces with Pattie Donahue, very nearly vloops with Eva Masters, does so gladly (and improbably) with a commercial lady named Black Lil. And marries, in the happy epilogue, beautiful Lucille Lake, girl...
...problem of casting Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita provoked more of a stir in Hollywood than there would have been over an open call for dogs after the death of Rin Tin Tin. The late Errol Flynn once offered the services of his teen-age mistress, Beverly Aadland, along with his own for the part of Humbert Humbert, Lolita's tragicomic, middle-aged lover. Director Stanley Kubrick was swamped with letters from U.S. mothers who thought their daughters just right for the part, surveyed 800 budding teen-agers before finally announcing the winner last week. Kubrick's choice...
...sugar, onion, butter, dill seed, salt, soda and egg. Add flour gradually to form a stiff dough, pausing to beat well after each addition. Cover and let rise for 50 to 60 minutes in warm place (85° to 90°) until dough is light and doubled in size. Stir down dough. Turn into well-greased 8-in. round casserole of 1½ or 2-qt. capacity. Let rise for 30 to 40 minutes in warm place until light...
...Vale of Kashmir and the Pakistanis cling precariously to the rocky mountain flanks-Nehru's hackles rose. To Ayub's suggestion that India by now ought not to be afraid to accept the U.N.'s recommendations for a plebiscite, Nehru replied that the plebiscite would only stir up ''communal feeling"-Nehruese for the probability that Kashmir's predominantly Moslem population, even after 13 years of living under Indian rule, would still vote to join their fellow Moslems in Pakistan...