Word: awakener
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...college education may not teach the meaning of life or even how to live, but it should awaken a recognition of how much there is yet to learn—and for this, even Frege and an aged university can be a useful guide. No matter how much effort we place on the means, discovering ways to pressure and persuade, to seize the city and to impose our own visions of the future, we will never learn how we are to use our newfound power, or what kind of world we should resolve to build. Such questions...
...didn’t really awaken to the love of what I did until I began to treat modern art,” Mancusi-Ungaro says...
MONDAY, DAY 3: At 2 a.m., I awaken to Sun Ra-esque noises and lights so colorful and blinding that I see them through my closed lids. I hear the words Zorak and Moltar and realize that my new, lovely wife Cassandra is watching Space Ghost. I tell Frank the next day. "We often hear complaints from wives that their husbands are not helping," he says. "It's an interesting twist that your wife is undermining you. Welcome to married life...
FRIDAY, DAY 7: The fever has broken. I awaken, for the first time, without instinctively looking at the silenced television. This is only partly because nothing decent airs on Fridays. At midnight I don't even rush to grab the remote. Not until 12:20 a.m. do I turn on the set. The colors are blinding, the fast cuts almost nauseating. I tune into E!'s Wild on the Adriatic, and everything seems nonsensical; I can't distinguish pixilated breasts from pixilated buttocks. I am a caveman...
...FRIDAY, DAY 7: The fever has broken. I awaken, for the first time, without instinctively looking at the silenced television. This is only partly because nothing decent airs on Fridays. At midnight I don't even rush to grab the remote. Not until 12:20 a.m. do I turn on the set. The colors are blinding, the fast cuts almost nauseating. I tune into E!'s Wild on the Adriatic, and everything seems nonsensical; I can't distinguish pixilated breasts from pixilated buttocks. I am a caveman...