Word: awakener
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...archkiller. The play's best excuse for being is a performance of atomic power and blinding virtuosity by Donald Pleasence. He is like a neurotic blood relative whom one cannot abide or yet disown. He is as hallucinatorily real as a dream from which one cannot awaken...
...court has for too many years had "sole responsibility for giving content and meaning to the broad mandate of the 14th Amendment." He welcomed "the new willingness" of Congress and the President to share in the task through civil rights legislation. Pointing out that court decisions have helped awaken the nation's conscience, Fortas said that the past 15 years have brought "the revitalization of the 14th Amendment and a return to the Constitution." But he warned of "a new and savage struggle between freedom's believers and its destroyers...
...protesting against government repression and demanding redress for a growing list of grievances, particularly against the heavyhanded riot cops. "In actuality," declared a student leader, "we are testing the structure of the country. We want the people to see what happens when the government is criticized. We want to awaken the need for change...
...excuse for being. Smirking, storming, giggling, cringing, screaming, he is wild, weird and wonderful. Pleasence knows how to invade a playgoer's mind like a neurotic blood relative whom one cannot abide and yet cannot disown. He has the hallucinatory reality of a dream from which one cannot awaken. He provides one of those rare performances that theatergoers will never stop talking about...
...social progress with justice." He thus hopes to satisfy the radicals without totally alienating the large number of reactionaries, who are strongly allied with the church. "Seeking evolution, fearing revolution, warning against violence but agreeing that reform is needed urgently, the Vatican is seeking to influence Latin American governments, awaken the conscience of the rich, involve the wealthy nations, and arouse its Latin hierarchy. But all without the church itself risking the loss of its privileges...