Word: awe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bounding up Capitol Hill last week with the handshake and "hi ya" enthusiasm of schoolboys beginning a new term, members of that exclusive academy, the U.S. Senate, made a disconcerting discovery. In a body whose love for headlines is exceeded only by its awe of seniority, the new boy from Ohio was focusing attention on himself. Not only were gallery eyes during opening session fixed on stonefaced, wavy-haired Frank Lausche, but the Senate's majority and minority leaders both had to reckon with his presence...
...whose family had opposed both Hitler and the Kaiser, started publishing at a time when West Germany's press was still timorous under Allied controls. His announced purpose was to protect the Untertan (underdog) from Obrigkeiten, or big shots, puncture the German's traditional awe of officialdom. Sponsored by British occupation officials, Augstein's magazine blasted Allied Obrigkeiten so vociferously that he was forced to get new backing, change the magazine's name from Diese Woche (This Week). Starting out with $5,000 in January 1947, Der Spiegel grew fast...
...Athletic Foundation in 1936, built a $350,000 museum in 1948 to enshrine relics of sports heroes (e.g., the shoes worn by Dakota Wesleyan's, Mark Payne in 1915 when he booted his record 63-yd. dropkick); of cancer; in Palm Springs, Calif. Sports Fan Helms acquired his awe of athletes watching his uncle, oldtime major-league Outfielder William E. ("Dummy'') Hoy, make circus catches, spent much of his time handing out medals to successful musclemen, encouragement to unknowns (the young Baseballers Jackie Robinson and Ralph Kiner, Trackman Mel Patton), helped oversubscribe Southern California's Olympic...
Father Lombardi's new institution fills a gap between individual spiritual exercises and large discussion meetings. It takes groups by categories. Priests come together without any overseeing bishop. "It too often happens." says Lombardi, "that at congresses a priest in awe of a bishop won't dare to contradict him. Or if we have a group of bishops, we have no onlooking priests so that bishops need not feel they have to be constrained in what they say or leave unsaid. We get this homogeneous group and bathe it in a supranatural atmosphere...
...pared to essentials, requiring the listener's intense concentration; also, it lacks a conductor, whose dramatics an audience can follow. Today, the way for a quartet to establish a name is to play, of all things, modern music. Reason: it brings almost certain notoriety with the public, and awe with other musicians and critics. Paris' rising Parrenin Quartet* has done just that. Last week touring the U.S. for the first time, the group played in Manhattan's Public Library; it lived up to its notoriety, inspired its share of awe...