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revive and interest
Something was needed to revive interest ; ;
Although the origins of the term are not referred to in the text, the title served ( along with the general hype created in Australia ) to revive public interest in the legend.
In addition, nanoimprint lithography may revive interest in this familiar technique, especially since the cost of ownership is expected to be low ; however, the shortcomings of contact printing discussed above remain as challenges.
Switzerland's national bank should revive investments by lowering interest rates.
Traditionalists would therefore reject the notions of individualism, liberalism, modernity, and social progress, but promote cultural and educational renewal, and revive interest in the church, the family, the state and local community.
The New Republic critic Otis Ferguson wrote two short articles for the magazine, " Young Man with a Horn " ( July 29, 1936 ) and " Young Man with a Horn Again " ( November 18, 1940 ), that worked to revive interest not only in Beiderbecke's music but also in his biography.
After the outbreak of war, with the group accused of " intellectual elitism its reputation faltered in the 1940s and 1950s, but from the 1960s critical interest in their achievements began to revive ".
As sales figures plummeted towards the end of the series, the writers attempted to revive interest by introducing fantastical creatures, aliens, and even Alec Holland's brother, Edward ( a plot point ignored by later writers ), into the picture.
After a period of high creative turnover, in 1991 DC sought to revive interest in Swamp Thing by bringing horror writer Nancy A. Collins on board to write the series.
These desperate measures were based on the need to revive the economy, and in doing so the miners gave up their mining heritage, turning to the rising interest in the West and skiing.
" Camille Saint-Saëns ( by editing and publishing the Pièces in 1895 ) and Paul Dukas were two other important French musicians who gave practical championship to Rameau's music in their day, but interest in Rameau petered out again, and it was not until the late 20th century that a serious effort was made to revive his works.
Many authors believe that he wounded himself in a bid to revive public interest in his story and to convince Stanhope to fulfil his promise to take him to England, but that he then stabbed himself more deeply than planned.
In the 1990s, musicians from the San Francisco Bay Area also helped revive interest in klezmer music by taking it into new territory.
After unsuccessful attempts to interest the authorities in Ireland and revolutionary France, he started trying to persuade the prime minister, William Pitt, to revive an earlier abandoned scheme for a National Penitentiary in England, this time to be built as a Panopticon.
In 1944 he rejoined Ory, and helped revive interest in traditional jazz on the West Coast.
In its initial usage, it referred to the point in a television program's history when the program had outlived its freshness and viewers had begun to feel that the show's writers were out of new ideas, often after great effort was made to revive interest in the show by the writers, producers, or network.
Cedric focuses his attentions upon Lady Montdore in particular and encourages her to update her wardrobe and general appearance and revive her interest in social matters, which has diminished since the " loss " of her lover and her daughter.
* This textbook, among other writings by Sciama, helped revive interest in Mach's principle.
The addition of dual carburetors in 1937 did not revive interest.
The establishment in 1946 of a group called the Inland Waterways Association by L. T. C. Rolt and Robert Aickman has helped revive interest in the UK's canals to the point where they are a major leisure destination.
Arab narratives read the heightened agitation of certain Jewish groups over the Wall as an attempt to revive diaspora interest in Zionism after some years of relative decline, depression and emigration.
The show helped revive and maintain interest in novelty hits from the 1950s and 1960s that received scant airplay on mainstream pop or oldies radio stations, including " Alley Oop " by the Hollywood Argyles, " The Ballad of Irving " by Frank Gallop, " The Battle of Kookamonga " by Homer and Jethro, " Monster Mash " by Bobby " Boris " Pickett, " Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah ( A Letter from Camp )" by Allan Sherman, " I Want My Baby Back " by Jimmy Cross, and " They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!
while a third member of the group, Robert Creeley did much to help revive interest in Zukofsky and other Objectivists.
Origin also published work by Louis Zukofsky, Lorine Niedecker and Wallace Stevens, helping to revive interest in these early modernist writers.

revive and suggests
In fact, Goldsworthy suggests that the success of Monkey Grip may well have helped revive the careers of two older but largely ignored Australian women writers, Jessica Anderson and Thea Astley.
However, when Fouch suggests that Audrey Jr .' s uniqueness might attract people from all over the world to see it, Mushnick gives Seymour one week to revive it.
In order to revive the local economy, Sommersby suggests Burley tobacco as a cash crop.

revive and performance
After the Covent Garden run of ten performances, the company presented the work in Manchester, but did not revive it in subsequent years ; it received a concert performance and broadcast in 1972.
In the months following his graduation he joined the " Neo-Naturists ", a group started by Christine Binnie to revive the " true sixties spirit – which involves living one ’ s life more or less naked and occasionally manifesting it into a performance for which the main theme is body paint ” ( Dawson, p. 81 ).
While the field of Noh performance is extremely codified, and regulated by the iemoto system, with an emphasis on tradition rather than innovation, some performers do compose new plays or revive historical ones that are not a part of the standard repertoire.
Chrysler, beset by financial problems, did not revive the pony car, although it did offer other front-wheel drive performance models with a similar spirit.
Still, the play was popular enough for Glyn to revive her performance periodically for the next two decades.
Rolling Stone magazine's Peter Travers praised Stallone's performance: " His performance builds slowly but achieves a stunning payoff when Freddy decides to clean up his town ... Freddy awakes to his own potential, and it's exhilarating to watch the character and the actor revive in unison.
There is no further record of performance until 1661, although it was likely to have remained in repertory to some degree until its anti-Puritan sentiments made it unwise to revive it.
Many close to him admitted that she did much to revive his popularity ; these efforts included a series of one-man shows, culminating in a sold-out performance at Carnegie Hall which was released on a best-selling record album and an honorary Academy Award he received in 1974.

revive and ,"
Some scholars ( e. g. Tillett and Spencer, 2000 ) have offered evidence that Gilbert and Sullivan had planned all along to re-use " Climbing over rocky mountain ," and perhaps other parts of Thespis, noting that the presence of the unpublished Thespis score in New York, when there were no plans to revive it, might not have been accidental.
The town would like to revive " Old Front Street ," develop the Big Gem Furnace tract, and play on its rich railroad history and proximity to such popular tourist destinations as Luray Caverns, Massanutten Resort, and the Shenandoah National Park.
Through the use of his technical terms, such as " transcendental ," " transcendent ," " reason ," " intelligibility ," and " thing-in-itself " they attempted to speak of what exists beyond experience and, in this way, to revive the notions of God, free will, and immortality of soul.
Ben-Yehuda regarded Hebrew and Zionism as symbiotic: " The Hebrew language can live only if we revive the nation and return it to the fatherland ," he wrote.
" Let's revive an almost lost memory ," Fernandes said about efforts by Patuá aficionados to ensure the survival of Macau's " sweet language " that, after all, is part of its unique history.
" Some people wanted to revive the Magic Mouse stories ," says Terry, " and he wanted me to illustrate them with my teenagers, from when young girls were more innocent.
The production was considered so successful, that the company decided to revive the show in 1993, due in no small part that the show's co-star, child actor Kirk Hall, Jr. ( 1982 -), was going to " out-grow " the part of " Pud ," the grandson of Gramps.
Thus, in 867, when Ya ' qub-i Laith of the Saffarid dynasty claimed the inheritance of the kings of Persia and sought " to revive their glory ," a poem written on his behalf sent to the Abbasid caliph said: " With me is the Drafsh e Kavian, through which I hope to rule the nations.
Interest in the Fartz began to revive in 1990 with the release of an LP entitled " You, We See You Crawling ," which was composed of previously unreleased demo tapes recorded in 1981-1982.
" In the same story, while attempting to revive a feverish Peri from spectrox toxaemia, he had noted that celery was an " excellent restorative from where I come from ," but that the human olfactory system was " comparatively feeble.
They believed that baths drained the spirits of the bathers, and that to revive " the three vital principles in the body, the animal, the spiritual and the natural ," the bath's walls should be covered with pictures of activities like hunting, of lovers, and of gardens and palm trees.
In " Strange Relations ," Jade Gladiator uses his bond with plant life to revive Deadwood.
Originally, this band was not called " Carabao ," but Aed was persuaded to revive the Carabao name, and the band continued with the new lineup.

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