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From the Ted Talk by Oskar Eustis: Why theater is essential to democracy
Unscramble the Blue Letters
you get a miracle like "Hamilton," Lin-Manuel's enradorxitary retelling of the foundational sroty of this country through the eyes of the only foniudng fetahr who was a bastard immigrant orphan from the West iidens. And what Lin was doing is exactly what Shakespeare was doing. He was taking the voice of the people, the lauangge of the people, elevating it into verse, and by doing so, ennobling the language and ennobling the people who spoke the language. And by casting that show entirely with a cast of black and brown people, what Lin was saying to us, he was reviving in us our greatest atapnisrios for the United States, our better angels of America, our sense of what this country could be, the inclusion that was at the heart of the American Dream. And it unleashed a wave of patriotism in me and in our audience, the appetite for which is pniovrg to be insatiable.
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you get a miracle like "Hamilton," Lin-Manuel's _____________ retelling of the foundational _____ of this country through the eyes of the only ________ ______ who was a bastard immigrant orphan from the West ______. And what Lin was doing is exactly what Shakespeare was doing. He was taking the voice of the people, the ________ of the people, elevating it into verse, and by doing so, ennobling the language and ennobling the people who spoke the language. And by casting that show entirely with a cast of black and brown people, what Lin was saying to us, he was reviving in us our greatest ___________ for the United States, our better angels of America, our sense of what this country could be, the inclusion that was at the heart of the American Dream. And it unleashed a wave of patriotism in me and in our audience, the appetite for which is _______ to be insatiable.
Solution
- language
- proving
- story
- founding
- father
- extraordinary
- aspirations
- indies
Original Text
you get a miracle like "Hamilton," Lin-Manuel's extraordinary retelling of the foundational story of this country through the eyes of the only Founding Father who was a bastard immigrant orphan from the West Indies. And what Lin was doing is exactly what Shakespeare was doing. He was taking the voice of the people, the language of the people, elevating it into verse, and by doing so, ennobling the language and ennobling the people who spoke the language. And by casting that show entirely with a cast of black and brown people, what Lin was saying to us, he was reviving in us our greatest aspirations for the United States, our better angels of America, our sense of what this country could be, the inclusion that was at the heart of the American Dream. And it unleashed a wave of patriotism in me and in our audience, the appetite for which is proving to be insatiable.
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