Word: awakenning
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...McCain's age. Some critics found her too mean or too right-wing. Over the next two months she will either sweeten or sour with the public, but certainly she will shrink, as the country focuses on the presidential debates. What McCain needed now was a jolt to awaken his own party...
...agonizing way possible, winning the Nobel should have offered some consolation. But when I asked Gore if he felt vindicated, he shook his head. "It's hard to celebrate recognition of an effort that has thus far failed," he said. He was referring to his work not only to awaken the world to the danger of climate change, but to get us to really do something about it. "I'm not finished, but thus far, I have failed. We have all failed...
...Spain a paragon of progressive family law. Popular Party challenger Mariano Rajoy has attempted to tap into what he sees as an underlying distrust of those rapid changes, but even he shies away from addressing them directly because he is aware that his allies in the Catholic Church hierarchy awaken distrust as well...
...Heaven and Earth Your special issue on the Heroes of the Environment was of great interest [Oct. 29]. It is a consolation that so many people all over the world are trying hard to awaken not only the general public but also the great leaders to the dangers ahead of us. It was disappointing that you didn't include a profile of Patriarch Bartholomew, head of the Greek Orthodox Church, as one of the heroes. He is known as the Green Patriarch because of his keen interest in protecting the environment. He has gathered representatives of the world's major...
...magnitude, a role he's still not quite comfortable with. He sees his work as an antidote to the consuming spectacles of our time-TV, video, computer games-so he would rather not turn into a spectacle himself. His ambition is not just to delight people but also to awaken them out of a passive relation to the world. Whether this is a job mere art can accomplish remains to be seen. But it helps to explain why Eliasson has given quite a few of his works titles with the word your in them. So, for instance, when he hung...