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...accepted throughout the University. In his article entitled "Black Studies at Harvard", he continued by expressing disbelief that events made the reversal they did soon after his report. But he ignored in that article an important action of his committee several months after his report, an action which did awaken students to the real nature of Harvard's commitment to them...
...purely subjective and individualistic, but objective and social." For him a political movement that embodies truth, as he believed the Republican cause in the Spanish Civil War did, serves the highest purposes of art through its expression in poetry. Spender believed at the time that ideally a poet could awaken the public consciousness and, by shedding light on a true, moral system of values, could perhaps influence the course of history--in this case, away from Fascism...
That deadline arose out of De Laurentiis' passion for the picture, an obsession that came upon him suddenly one morning a couple of years back, when he still had his headquarters in New York. It was Dino's duty to awaken his daughter Francesca, then 15, to get her off for school, but as often as he performed that task he failed to notice the old movie poster in her room. Then one morning he had to return a second time to shake her into wakefulness, and that was the day he saw the poster-which advertised...
Days in the Trees seems like a bad dream from which the playwright could not awaken. Nor can the actors who shudder convulsively with the dire reality...
...playing. Allowing your imagination to be your guide, Rostropovich told Colburn, will eliminate technical difficulties. The Russian asked Colburn to describe the music he was about to play before setting his bow on the strings. "When you truly understand the music, the desire to play the music will awaken itself in you. Your imagination must always be your teacher. It must teach you before you've sat down at the instrument...