Word: aghast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since when is crime a laughing matter among supposedly civilized people? I was aghast at the cynical attitude you took at Albert Anastasia's murder-and murder...
...dais piled high with priceless Oriental carpets, and turned to face her audience. Younger men in the audience eyed appreciatively the girl's dark eyes, her rich red-brown hair and café au lait complexion. But many orthodox Moslem traditionalists just stared wide-eyed, stunned and aghast at the appearance in public of Her Royal Highness Princess Lalla Aisha, eldest daughter of His Majesty the Sultan-17 years old, unveiled and unashamed...
...Prince Charles, Osborne went on to ask: "Is no one aghast at the thought of a lifetime of reading about that first day at prep school, the measles, the first dance, the wedding, and finally the beauty of the ceremonial...
...Aghast." Even if they grow blasé or hostile toward Van Doren as an unbeatable contestant, it is difficult to imagine viewers tiring of the fascinating, suspense-taut spectacle of his highly trained mind at work. Breathing heavily, Charlie coaxes elusive answers out of odd corners of his brains by talking to himself, muttering little associated fragments of knowledge. Like a boxer staying down for a count of nine, he takes all the time he can possibly get ("Let's skip that part, please, and come back to it"). When trying to identify the character in La Traviata...
...that Van Doren's quiz wizardry flies ironically in the face of what the college and Charlie himself stand for. So does Philosopher Mortimer J. (How To Read a Book) Adler, a longtime friend, who admits "my own low fascination with the show" but adds: "I'm aghast that anyone would have this kind of information in his head. I wouldn't be caught dead with it. I just can't believe it isn't a mental burden."* Others, including faculty members at St. John's itself, point out that Van Doren...