Word: reawaken
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...manned program, in virtual hibernation since the last Skylab mission in 1973, will reawaken when the shuttle begins operation next year. Plans call for several missions each year, with the half spaceship/half-glider confined to earth orbit...
Even so, newly conscious man tried desperately to reawaken the silent gods, turning to oracles, seers, augurs and religious sacrifice. "Historians haven't come to terms with those voices," says Jaynes. "Why did Greece, the most intellectual civilization the world had yet produced, make its most crucial political decisions for centuries by consulting the simple peasant girls who were Apollo's oracles at Delphi...
...described the porn impulse as "insatiable." Slade and Marcus may be making the same point: it was precisely the repressive nature of prudery that created a taboo-rich culture in which Victorian porn fantasies could take exotic shape. But if the porn industry finds no limits, it could perhaps reawaken the American taste for censorship. The very thought is anathema to most Americans. The danger is that it may be found more supportable than the worst conceivable outcome of the porno plague: a brutalizing of the American psyche that turns U.S. society into the world portrayed in A Clockwork Orange...
...about Simon Moro, whose own identity is a holism of flackery and confused truths. His accent is Central European, his interests are Hapsburgian kinky. He began his career in Austria but was actually born in Vienna, N.J. A nice touch. Fittingly, one of Moro's last attempts to reawaken America to the majesty of terror occurs on the Tonight show. A great touch. With their open-ended banalities, incessant commercials and non-climaxes, such shows can come absurdly close to those modern visions of hell where the damned wait endlessly for something to happen...
This drifting away from earlier material seems necessary, even when some of the new directions promise to be less consequential; attempts to reawaken the old are simply unsuccessful. "Give a Damn," a "talking song" on Paul and was a theme song for the Urban Coalition. It evokes, above all, a sense of deja vu. Its point is that arm-chair liberals are hypocrites--not an especially novel insight...