Word: awakenning
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...core problem is that Americans have been told by the press that our heroes are those who flatter us uncritically, who make us feel better by doing the work of liberation for us. They periodically awaken the sympathy which we use to cover for our inactivity. The press uses heroism to mean sensationalism, grandstanding. Real heroism lies in the courage of everyday life which some people find to rebuild this world despite the obstacles. Though no paper covered it, the heroism in the woman's response to the addict is the only cure to the fear in the younger girl...
...shake with terror and glee. The war, his father, the people on the beach, bombs, planes and lightning were all the same to him for that moment. When the storm finally subsided he went to sleep. He cried out once or twice in the night, but did not awaken...
Stalin scants Stalin as well as conventional play making. It is a kind of lavish underwater ballet, a labyrinthine dream from which one cannot awaken, a slow-motion time study that makes the slow motion of, say, film or videotape seem like a device of dizzying speed...
This explanation is unfounded on two accounts. For one thing, radical lawbreakers such as William Sloane Coffin (cited specifically by Magruder) conducted their illegal activities openly and fearlessly. Their actions were public actions designed to enlighten and awaken the American people--not to deceive and mislead them. More importantly, however, Coffin's lawbreaking was an act of conscience. He--and others--felt morally compelled, by a belief in God or in the value of human life, to disobey the laws of our nation. They put God, or conscience, above country...
...hospital with sorrow in my heart. Speaking meager words of comfort to an anxious family, I have put my arm around a mother, wife or husband as they sobbed on my shoulder, and then "pulled the plug." It is not easy. It also is not easy to awaken in the morning to find the newspapers rasping away at heartless, moneygrubbing doctors...