Word: awakenning
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...order to live wisely in the present moment it is necessary to have a sense of the continuity of time and an awareness of the fact that those who made history, wrote books and created ideas were fully alive in their present. That is the teacher's function; to awaken and communicate the life of the past. If the past is distrusted, it is because the teachers have not enkindled it, and the students have not burst into flame. Discussing the university don in one of his aromatic essays, George Santayana says: "Yet dry learning and much chewing...
This selection concludes a successful year during which three plays were given. Before Cambridge audiences the players have put on George Bernard Shaw's difficult "Great Catherine," Ibsen's seldom-given "When We Dead Awaken," and the well-received "Uncle Vanya," by Chekov, which the Guild Theatre revived in New York last year...
Next day in a grey dawn the odd lull still hung over the city as though the good citizens had refused to awaken. No windows were flung wide to groet the morning, no one went whistling to work, the breakfast bacon seemed to lie quiet in its own grease. As the day wore on a strange murmur like far off breakers on a distant beach began in the St. Antoine to break the sullen quietude. Travelling slowly along the crooked streets it gathered volume always nearer, always louder. At last with a great roar it burst out around the high...
...enthusiastic response shown the Studio Players in December when they presented Henrik Ibsen's "When We Dead Awaken," they have decided to remain in Cambridge and to offer five productions, approximately one a month from now until May. The Players feel that there is a definite public which will support the production of really worth while drama in Cambridge, and are offering this series of productions to prove their convictions. The other plays in the series will include Chekoff's "Uncle Vanya," Quintero's "Fortunato," and Pirandello's "Naked." "Uncle Vanya," which will be the next production, will be played...
...that the artist gets the better of the argument in "When We Dead Awaken." Lovers of Ibsen will recall the rather cloudy complications resolving themselves "on the heights" of the Scandinavian mountains, between a middleaged sculptor, his youthful disillusioned wife, and the Strange Lady, Irene, exmodel and "grande dame" whom the sculptor had thrown over long ago for the sake of his art. It is the old dramatist's contribution to the eternal dilemma of the love of woman versus the love of art. Having chosen the latter and abandoned Irene, the sculptor discovers that, in killing his love...