Word: awakens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With the most demanding part of the schedule yet to come, Harvard must awaken from the doldrums if it is to be the serious contender everyone in Cambridge thought the Crimson would be. "We all thought we were better than this," Marion said yesterday. "But I guess we'll have to do a lot more work...
...buraku-min are beginning to awaken from the apathy and impotence of their past. Seventeen years ago, they formed the National Liberation League, which now has a membership of more than 300,000-enough to draw the attention of politicians and behavioral scientists alike. The buraku-min are too few in number and too widely dispersed to be a decisive factor in any electoral district. Yet prior to last month's general election, candidates of all parties avidly courted their votes, promising more public funds for buraku housing, sanitation and roads...
...through the mythologies they create whether the mystery of predestination or demigod at technology mystery of predestination or the damaged of technology. Thoreau says, He proceeds from there to create a mythic life this own at Walden Ponds which has written call to his neighbors, and to us, to awaken and shed the necessities we have brought upon ourselves Thoreau clearly realizes that the casting off and rebuilding of one's own life, symbolized by his retreat to the woods and construction of his house as well as his book is no easy task. Thoreau hopes that be the model...
...action. And, as such faddists as Andrew Sarris in film and Susan Sontag in literature hang themselves by the ropes of their own silliness, the realization seems to have been reached that art--even in its simplest form--is difficult, meant to challenge the preconceptions of its appreciators and awaken higher consciousness, and is socially functional only on a moral level (not necessarily political, and too complex in direct experience for the weathervane readings of, say, McLuhan...
JOURNEY'S END A feast for worms, a season in hell make up the grim menu and locale of R.C. Sherriffs play. In war. Death never retreats; the fear of it is the one bad dream from which the soldier cannot awaken. The undescribed campaign of every war is the tactical offensive that men improvise against Death. Ostensibly, this play is about British officers in a World War I bunker on the edge of no man's land as they prepare to meet a big German attack. The strength and verity of the work is that these...