Word: awakenning
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...magnified a hundred fold. The character-specimens are so hypersensitive to each passing emotion that in real life they would probably need to seek asylum - or take up writing New Realist novels on their own. But Author Sarraute's skillful pressing on the neurotic nerve is bound to awaken shocks of recognition in the persevering reader, suggesting, among other things, that no man is a hero to his subconscious...
...Student Nonviolence Coordinating Committee, with headquarters in Atlanta. The delegates pledged themselves to accept jail before bail if arrested, heard the Rev. Martin Luther King, head of Atlanta's Southern Christian Leadership Conference, predict that willingness to go to jail "may well be the thing to awaken the dozing conscience of many of our white brothers." In Nashville, Fisk University's President Stephen J. Wright summed up the protest movement: "I see no cessation of this struggle in the foreseeable future. This is no student panty raid. It is a dedicated universal effort, and it has cemented...
Sleepers Awake. In Nigeria, the cry was "FreeDOM!" and the Congolese yelled " 'depenDANCE!" Whatever its label, the spirit of self-rule was sweeping at gale force across Africa, last of the continents to awaken from the sleep of centuries...
...World War II. A meek, wispy druggist's clerk takes them into his house, feeds them, and misdirects a Gestapo search party. The flyers congratulate themselves on their luck and hide out for a week in the clerk's wine cellar. But one morning when they awaken, they are chained and handcuffed...
...next three months he will awaken at 4 a.m., spend mornings begging food, afternoons in meditation. He will try to observe 228 commandments and confess each failure, no matter how small (example: inadvertently killing an insect). And when the 90 days are over, he will return to his worldly occupation -respected and, he hopes, revitalized for the daily toil in the world of appearances...