Word: wakes
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...says. “It wasn’t just a style. They wanted to change the world. Even Luis Buñuel in ‘Un chien andalou’ and in his other films, you know, he writes about how what he wants is to wake up the audience because they have a tendency to let themselves be lulled into quietness and sleep. So there’s a kind of anarchist tendency in Surrealism but also just an impulse to question and to contest authority, which is probably not such a bad thing in certain times...
...about. So Buñuel puts himself in it I think partially as a commentary on film. Film is a cut. And also he had a theory that film should be a kind of violence and a provocation to the viewer, you know, it’s supposed to wake...
...that won’t wake you up, well, I don’t know what will...
Panic sets in. “Where will I wake up to the sweet strains of neo-avant death-pop-core?” you ask. “Where am I going to find somebody who looks like a homeless person to make my coffee...
This hesistance is not exclusive to Harvard; it’s a disease that plagues American discourse. Especially in the realm of politics, verbal acumen (e.g., Republicans’ “death tax”) obscures the debate. But in the wake of former University President Summers’ “women in science” debacle—no! we can’t debate that! I’ll faint!—Harvard’s lack of discomforting, yet potentially illuminating, discourse should be on all students’ minds...