Word: stirs
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Wang, who had graduated from Dartmouth just three years earlier, spoke at Yale, Columbia, and Princeton before coming to Harvard. Wang’s mission was to stir up pro-segregation sentiment among students at Ivy League colleges and to try to organize campus branches of the White Citizens’ Councils, according to a Crimson report at the time...
...accepting Bush’s endorsement, McCain made a choice to stand together with the Bush administration. Attacking it now might seem like an easy way to stir up votes among those dissatisfied with Bush’s response post-Katrina, especially from those whose lives are still defined by the Katrina disaster. Yet just as McCain once called for circumspection in evaluating the government’s role in the aftermath of Katrina, he should call for circumspection again, this time from himself. Taking a step back from the campaign trail, McCain should recognize that his integrity and straight...
...course, the notion of discourse inspired by art isn’t, in itself, shallow or boring. There is a long and venerable tradition of using shock to stir the art-appreciator’s conscience. Surrealist shock-art sought to tear open the subconscious, politicizing the personal realm of Oedipal complexes and bourgeois sexuality. And not all controversial modern ideas are petty and narcissistic. German artist Gregor Schnedier was recently pilloried for trying to bring real death into an art gallery; he has constructed a room for dying and has offered it to anyone who wants...
...read the newspaper. I scrunch deeper under the comforter, squeezing out more dreams. Until a few months ago, my three-pound boy dog would dance on my face to waken me. Now his two-pound sister, who is also bereft, lies quietly on my chest. If I don't stir, she licks my nostrils as gentle reveille...
...into the swing’s ambit and, after a tussle of shouts, duck for safety. Sometimes the swing will make rubber-to-skull contact, and an uncomfortable and embarrassed student will bowl over onto the grass. In the true fashion of a totem, though, the gentle swinging will stir deep memories in all of us—memories of childhoods real or imagined, individual and collective apparitions of an idyllic pastoral existence...