Word: awe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this 'yawmzed breath' through its natural partner, the stretch, animate the entire body. This is the 'stylized breath.'" Once he explained: "We are a band groping toward intuitive communication. . . . When you conceive of a community, all members of which are swayed by kindred emotions of awe and wonder, expressing themselves through plastic bodies moving rhythmically, the picture is staggering...
...palette . . . and then several large, fierce strokes and slashes of blue on the absolutely cowering canvas. Anyone could see that it could not hit back. . . . The sickly inhibitions rolled away. I seized the largest brush and fell upon my victim with Berserk fury. I have never felt any awe of a canvas since...
...forward, dazed and winded. It was his luck to be the only one knocked out. Most of our passengers scrambled out into the battle, left one officer and me to drag wiry, 48-year-old General Lee out on to the ground. A young paratrooper came by, stared in awe at the wreck, then laughed and said: "Jeez! You must have guts...
Last Wednesday night I saw a man crack completely, and it was a sad sight. A group of students were gathered around a radio in the lab. Two of the men were working on it, and the others looked on in silent awe. I could feel a nervous electric tension in the air. Suddenly one of the students leaped upon the lab table. His face was frenzied; his voice was high and strained; and he sang (to the tune of "MacNamara's Band" which happened to be on the radio at the time) this strange unearthly song...
Rockwell's tastes in past and present art are entirely what his work would lead one to expect. He venerates Rembrandt and Breughel. He feels the normal awe for Michelangelo, but explains, "Michelangelo is not my star. If I could own an original, I'd rather own a fine Howard Pyle." Among his favorite contemporaries are Thomas Benton, John Steuart Curry, the late Grant Wood. He says "you can learn a tremendous lot from the abstractionists and so forth." But he adds that his own feeling for art is remote from the modernists'-"I like to please...