Word: awe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...emotions may, without violence, be composed into a more or less successful image of justice. Thurgood Marshall's feeling of love and awe for the Constitution is exceeded only by his love and awe toward his clients: the Negroes, and especially the Negroes of the South and the border states, who, facing threats of firing, or beating or even death, continue to sign the legal petitions and complaints that must be the starting point of Marshall's cases from the slum and the cotton field to the high and technical levels of the Supreme Court. Of these local...
...best friends, but now (it's mutual) one of her severest critics. To discourage her seagoing party from completely wasting its substance in riotous living, Elsa was also charting a full course of culture-vulture activities, including pilgrimages to antiquities and monuments ashore. Wrote a Venetian newsman awe-strickenly: "Miss Maxwell is even scheduling lessons-but real lessons-in history and art!" Reportedly sniffed the Duchess of Windsor: "Maxwell...
...started hooking candy from the corner store," Frankie recalls. "Then little things from the five-and-dime, then change from cash registers, and finally, we were up to stealing bicycles." Pretty soon Frank was involved in some rough gang wars. He got so good at planning jobs that his awe-struck henchmen called him "Angles," and he had plenty of bad examples to follow, pretty close to home. The streets he played in were full of bootleggers and triggermen; there were even a couple of neighborhood gang killings...
...size. He assumed such a grand scene should be painted in the grand manner; the result is sentimental, vague and declamatory. Perhaps the poets of the age did such artists more harm than good; told that nature was simply grand, painters inclined to view her through a haze of awe...
...they succeeded in communicating their awe to contemporaries, did much better financially than American abstractionists do today. In 1858, the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad dispatched Asher Durand and some of his colleagues in an excursion train, which stopped when any of the artists expressed a desire to sketch the view from the windows. The 600-odd canvases in John Kensett's studio brought $137,715 at auction after his death...