Word: reawakenings
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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...
...came as a great and welcome surprise to most Americans that Nixon take this unusual journey. The new bombing has snuffed out whatever sparks of hope were ignited. Such international treachery should reawaken America's attention to the Vietnam atrocities. Nixon continues to deliver the murderous hypocrisy which has come to be the bloody trademark of successive dishonest administrations...
Even in losing, Yablonski had considerable effect on the U.M.W. He forced Boyle to adopt many of his positions, including support for higher pensions and wages and, for the first time, meaningful health and safety legislation. Most of all, Yablonski has helped reawaken rank-and-file interest in the union and make miners less willing to accept fiats from U.M.W. headquarters...
They are not hungry for Shakespeare, but Zeffireli's Romeo and Juliet will surely do much to reawaken a youthful identification with the aristocratic "star-crossed lovers" who have been so long in the limbo of Required Reading. This is one of the handful of classic Shakespearean films; it ranks lower than the Olivier Henry V, but only because of the substance, not the direction. With a charged, witty camera, Zeffirelli has managed to make the play alive and wholly contemporary without having had to transfer the action to a modern setting. Romeo and Juliet appear afresh...
President Johnson, who announced the formation of the committee in February, said the group would "reawaken interest in the vitality and beauty of the English language through the works of William Shakespeare." It will also draw the attention of foreigners to "our many American Shakespeare festivals," in order to "help our government in stimulating more visitors to the United States...