Word: awakenning
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Just ask Chris Webber and the rest of the Michigan basketball team, which sleepwalked through much of its season, only to awaken (well, almost) at NCAA tournament time...
...bolts-and-concrete seam. Outside, the pair of connected buildings, both clad in perfect, curved, wafer-thin sheets of stainless steel, look like 21st century allusions to 16th century Japanese armor, at once futuristic and resonant with the past. "One of architecture's functions," Maki has said, "is to awaken subconscious memories of shapes." He does so, at Fujisawa and elsewhere, by means of a sort of New Age Gothic, in which romantic form follows rational function, in which the architecture and the state-of-the-art construction...
...from his "dogmatic slumber" on the issue of the a priori nature of all metaphysics. Similarly, though perhaps less monumentally, it took the recent controversy between Professor Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr. and Zaheer R. Ali '94, president of the Black Students Association, on the origin of grade inflation to awaken me from my own dogmatic slumber on the issue of affirmative action...
...need to reevaluate the justice of the very principle of affirmative action, in addition to the discrepancies between such a noble principle" and its messy enforcement. Likewise, we should all awaken from our doginatic Slumber, on this crucial issue that somehow remains taboo...
...production values of Black Snow scream for attention. The stark stage design by Antony McDonald and lighting design by Scott Zielinski are stunning in combination, but unlike other grand gestures like the sets for When We Dead Awaken and Misalliance, these sets aren't particularly illuminating of the themes or larger symbols at work in the play. The conversion of the ART stage into backstage at the Moscow Art Theatre is the one meaningfully creative exception...