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...fascinating mosaic of the contradictory character of the master spy, a man ruthlessly cold and dedicated to Communism professionally, but by all accounts a warm and likable man in his personal life. Philby dispatched hundreds of Albanian patriots to their deaths, in theory landing them in Albania to stir up resistance, but in fact sending them straight into the guns of the Albanian Communist troops, whom he had tipped off. But he worried over some innocent emigrants mistakenly interned as German agents during World War II. He also wept when his pet fox was pushed off the balcony...
...academic disasters" was "the cruelest kind of phrase-making." "The violence of that rhetoric . . . added up to a kind of inhumanity and insensitivity which is all too characteristic of the way white people deal with the Negro people anyway." Monro acknowledged however that Reisman and Jencks "were trying to stir things up, and get people moving toward change...
...bring about a reconciliation with the East bloc. Walter Ulbricht's East German regime has cited the Nazi danger as an excuse for tampering with Allied guarantees of access to West Berlin. At home, though the National Democrats poll only a relatively small percentage of votes, they stir up trouble out of proportion to their numbers because of the nervous condition of the Grand Coalition that governs West Germany...
...Ward committees can take positions on issues, but most of them--at least in Cambridge--don't do anything," Mattson said. He personally hopes to stir ward interest in a state senate redistricting bill, which, in his words, "makes hash of Cambridge." Matson added that "the people who are behind the bill in the Statehouse are candidates patronage jobs concerning election officials...
...sermon of the future to a meeting in Toronto last week of the Catholic Homiletic Society. "If you see anything you don't like," he calmly warned the audience, "boo or hiss or knock the guy next to you off his chair. This is intended to stir up all kinds of emotions...