Word: slumberer
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During the closing scene of Brattle Theatre's production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" three centaurs marched in with candelabras of Roman candles. Amid the fireworks, Puck told the audience to think it "had but slumber'd here," bade it good night, and sunk through the stage...
Writes Toynbee: "A peasantry that had previously been acquiescing-and this for hundreds and thousands of years on end-in serving as hewers of wood and drawers of water for a privileged minority, has at last been awakening from its slumber . . . For all that time, it had never dreamed of any possibility of a change for the better. The impact of the West has put this dream into [its] mind...
...East and West alike our spiritual and intellectual leaders will seek new dimensions and they will find them . . . And they will bless the names of Marx and Lenin, not indeed for what they did and meant, but for having roused the rest of us from our slumber and forced us to inquire after our good and return...
...scene. The blimp, when he saw it, carried a Goodyear sign; he substituted Socony's flying red horse "because I thought it was a nicer shape." The baby's head in the poster he enlarged considerably, and embellished with sinister rips. By its size and its leaden slumber, the baby dominated the picture; he might have been dreaming it all, and he might have represented Koerner himself...
...Republicans," he cried, building up to his punch line, "sit around waiting for us to make a proposal. Then they react with an outburst of scare words. They are like a cuttlefish that squirts out a cloud of black ink whenever its slumber is disturbed...