Word: awakenning
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...felt as angry and as militant about white racism as any of his brothers. Young spent many tortured nights talking out his anguish with close friends. Yet he always concluded that his own popularity was irrelevant to what he felt he could do best to aid black progress: awaken white corporate boardrooms to the economic injustice of discrimination against blacks. When Young, 49, died last week while swimming in the Atlantic surf off Lagos, black America lost one of its most effective leaders...
...years later, as they awaken to find Radcliffe giving more and more of herself to Harvard, many Radcliffe students are viewing the work of their trustees-the so-called "non-merger" merger-with a blend of suspicion, anger, and despair...
...Thieu said he hoped the North Vietnamese "would soon awaken to the reality and not put us in a situation which forces us to attack them right in their own territory...
...concerned about the permanence of institutions and pay too little attention to what they do," he says. He counts on the school's experimental aura to engage students in a day when collegians increasingly regard traditional education as "irrelevant." If Franconia can awaken more and more students to their own capacities, Botstein believes, the problems of funding and accreditation can be solved. However he fares, Botstein is firmly convinced that a president should never become inseparably tied to one institution. He expects to retire before he is 30, "to start from the bottom somewhere else...
...belonged to the young; they provided its victims, its rage and energy, most of its history, and all of its sense of a future re-opened . . . There were strikes, fire bombings and street fights; there were prayers and marches and assemblages. All, perhaps, were inevitable, and were necessary to awaken a sense of remaining alternatives in a people who had lapsed into apathy, exhausted by a meaningless, unending war, silenced by the smiling orthodoxy of an Administration that condoned the most vicious attacks on almost every form of dissent...