agitator, beside (oneself), agitation, hullabaloo, row. an outside agitator, filing and promoting federal claims of harassment of Jews that he knows will garner media attention

He has also been an outside agitator, filing and promoting federal claims of harassment of Jews that he knows will garner media attention and put pressure on college administrators, students and faculty.

George Orwell, essayist, novelist, passionate agitator for truth - and BBC radio producer - died 70 years ago today.
It's difficult to imagine what it must have been like to work alongside the great man, but here he is (at top left) in a meeting with BBC colleagues…

Robert Reich

Quote of the day: "Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization.
Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation."

– Eugene V. Debs, “The Issue” (1908)

BBC Culture

Classical works that have caused a hullabaloo over the past few centuries


Five classical music controversies
Music for the concert hall has a genteel reputation – but strife and scandals abound.
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A word is beside itself. 翻譯成"一個字身不由己"


案: beside (oneself)
In a state of extreme excitement or agitation: They were beside themselves with glee.


UPDATE:Yahoo Blasts Icahn As 'Agitator' Who Seeks Quick Profit

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The latest letter followed a Tuesday skirmish on Capitol Hill in which a senior Microsoft executive accused Yahoo's CEO of conspiring with Google Inc. ...

hullabaloo

(noun) Disturbance usually in protest.

noun

informal

1. a commotion; a fuss.

   "remember all the hullabaloo over the golf ball?"

Synonyms:
turmoil, upheaval, agitation, excitement

Usage: In the morning Joan was roused by a great row and hullabaloo.

1. hullabaloo.
2.  also hul·la·bal·loo (hŭl'ə-bə-lū') 
   n., pl., -loos, also -loos.
   Great noise or excitement; uproar. See synonyms at noise.
   
   
   [Alteration of obsolete hollo-ballo, probably from holla, hello. See hello.]

1. agitator

   (ăj'ĭ-tā'tər) 
   
   n.
   
   1. One who agitates, especially one who engages in political agitation.
   2. An apparatus that shakes or stirs, as in a washing machine.
   
   agitate (MAKE ANXIOUS) Show phonetics
   verb [T]
   to make someone feel anxious and not calm:
   I didn't want to agitate her by telling her.
   
   agitated Show phonetics
   adjective
   She became very agitated when her son failed to return home.
   
   agitation Show phonetics
   noun [U]
   anxiety:
   He arrived home in a state of agitation.
2. 
   
3. agitation[ag・i・ta・tion]

4. • 発音記号[æ`dʒitéiʃən]

   [名][U]

   1 （感情の）揺れ；（人心の）動揺, 不安, 興奮
   

   in great agitation
   ひどく取り乱して

   cry with agitation
   興奮して叫ぶ.

   2 [U][C]（…について）世論に訴えること；（…に賛成［反対］の）（社会的な）運動, 騒動, 扇動, アジ, 激論, 論戦((for ...；against ...))
   

   an agitation for and against abortion
   中絶についての賛否の激論.

   3 （激しく）振り動かすこと, 撹拌(かくはん).

   ag・i・ta・tion・al

   [形]