Word: awakening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...informed community can put to rest the issues of fear, doubt and anger surrounding AIDS and awaken a strong and enlightened community. In the Harvard Community, the Harvard AIDS Institute performs the role of information bearer. Students, faculty and staff from all parts of the University can call for classes, forums and information about AIDS...
...relieving the itchy ironies of Judah's discomfiting story. It also rings with irony. If neither Judah's guilty musings on his own crimes -- and he does exhibit a strong desire to be caught and punished -- nor decent Cliff's frantic quest for some kind of fulfillment can awaken heaven's sleeping eye, then what in this world can? If Manhattan, coming at the end of the '70s, was Woody Allen's comment on that decade's besetting sin, self-absorption, then this is his concluding unscientific postscript on the besetting sin of the '80s, greed. At times the joints...
...comedy, and the ritual revelry from which it springs, is of a story that concludes with a vision of unity, of natural harmony. So, after all the lunacies and bumps of Shakespeare's starlit night are over, the spirits come down to put everything to right, and the lovers awaken with the morning lark only to suspect that it was all a dream. Love is blind, and its victims are mad, the poet suggests, but only for a night, a brief, forgetful spell. Perhaps even in 1600 that might have seemed an escapist thought; in 1989, however, a midsummer night...
...argue it either way about who will win the coming legislative battles over abortion and what effect those battles will have on politics at large. My bet is that the repeal of Roe (especially if it is completed by the court next year, as seems likely) will awaken and politicize social-issue liberals the way Roe itself energized conservatives 16 years ago. From 1973 until recently, abortion mattered a lot more to the antis than to the pros; that is already starting to change. The new politics of abortion will also put many Republican politicians in the sort of bind...
Impassioned reporting can help awaken readers to the abuse of human rights or the needs of persecuted ethnic and national groups. Distorted, sensational, and ultimately numbing reporting on Israel, on the other hand, while it may have some immediate effect on the plight of the Palestinians, in the long run makes support for the Palestinians secondary to condemnation of Israel. Such reporting will serve only nations like Jordan and Syria--the truer, deeper and more longstanding enemies of Palestinian statehood...