Word: reawakened
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
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...
...things out of control, or will this latest ghastly act finally reawaken the deadened moral nerve of this country? At last the Kennedy Administration has begun to speak out, and it is now up to every American citizen to work, publicly and privately, to achieve racial harmony. There isn't much time left...
Perhaps it requires a death like Moore's to reawaken the deadened moral nerve of this nation. Certainly abstractions have failed to convey what is happening in the South. It may be that only isolated episodes, like lynchings and murders, can remind us of the horror of this changing region...
...Great American Cities that the doctor had just written for the New Statesman and said we were curious about his interest in sociology, and in writing. "So much of real sociology is common sense," he answered, "that it can't be uninteresting. I should like to be able to reawaken (through my own writing) the spirit of William James and Charles Peirce--their fantastic muscular ordinariness is very much a part of the best of America. I hope to be able to write--if I'm not too extraordinarily busy--when we get to New York...