Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...protest will try to "create a stir within the Soviet Union by inundating their government with letters and to awaken student concern to the plight of refuseniks as a human rights issue, not a Jewish one," said Melissa B. Milgram '88, co-chairman of the Hillel committee sponsoring the write-a-thon...
...sets up an office at home while his wife (Joanna Kerns) goes off to work and his children attack him with lines like "You can't hit me, you're a liberal humanist." The only comedy to venture out of the house this season is CBS's hourlong Stir Crazy, based on the phenomenally successful 1980 movie starring Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder. The pilot episode is cluttered with subplots and juvenile slapstick. But the show has a pair of appealing stars (Larry Riley and Joseph Guzaldo), brisk direction and more laughs than at least half of the teen films...
...Lyman called the Irish "a race that will never be infused into our own, but on the contrary will always remain distinct and hostile." The Eastern European Jews who fled the pogroms were an embarrassment to the cultivated German Jewish establishment in the U.S. Some of today's immigrations stir hatreds, but if anything, the new Asians at least may be more welcome than most of the Italians in the generation of Lee Iaccoca's father. So many of the Asians come from the middle class, or aspire to the middle class, and are driven by a stern Confucian ethic...
...protected by the First Amendment. Advertisements, wrote Justice Byron White for the majority, are not comparable to face-to-face solicitation of clients, which can be prohibited because it is "rife with possibilities for overreaching . . . and outright fraud." The court rejected the contention that ads like Zauderer's will "stir up litigation" unnecessarily. "That our citizens have access to their civil courts is not an evil to be regretted," said White. "The state is not entitled to interfere with that access by denying its citizens accurate information about their legal rights...
...Reagan announces his tax-reform package in a nationwide speech scheduled for next week, he will call on Congress to shun the influence peddlers and approve a program that is both simple and fair. Unfortunately, the Administration has tossed enough favors for interest groups into its own package to stir grumblings that the preacher himself has been tippling on the way to the temperance meeting...