Word: awakens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...news of the death of Pope Paul VI sent the Catholic world into nine days of traditional mourning, members of the Harvard community yesterday praised the late Pontiff as a moderate reformer who tried to awaken the Roman Catholic Church to social issues without permanently dividing it along political lines...
...lose some $7 billion a year. Either they would have to curtail services severely or the state, whose budget already totals $12.5 billion, would have to rescue them-presumably by increasing other taxes. As a result, officials are bracing for what they call "Black Wednesday," fearful that they may awaken on June 7 to find that the long-brewing taxpayers' revolt has become a reality...
Henry Maier, mayor of Milwaukee: "When are we going to awaken to the plight of our cities? When we begin airlifting its victims to the suburbs...
...Loose Change or King-or just about any other TV movie. Not only is Holocaust faithful to the facts of a horrific historical episode, this show also has the power to keep fickle TV viewers riveted to the tube. It is an uncommonly valuable achievement: Holocaust is likely to awaken more consciences to the horrors of the Third Reich than any single work since Anne Frank's diary nearly three decades...
...other work, "Rainforest," is equally disturbing: a stage filled with sinister silver helium balloons is the setting for a dance of desperate energy and haunting tenderness. In both these works, Cunningham's artistry provides the dance, allowing meaning and response to awaken spontaneously in each member of the audience...