Word: awe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...change in the tone of American politics has to be attributed to Democratic Congressional leaders bent on proving their responsibility. Yet the key figure is still President Eisenhower. For the Democrats would never be so much on their good behavior if they did not feel a respect almost approaching awe for the President's standing before the country. And the President himself was the first to set the new tone in which the other parties to our political dialogue are at last responding...
...most popular painter in the world today, judging by gallerygoers' reactions and reproduction sales, is the sensual impressionist, Pierre Auguste Renoir. Leonardo commands greater awe, but awe is a long way from affection: at the Louvre it is not the tourists but the Mona Lisa who smiles. Van Gogh had more passion, and for a time his popularity surpassed even Renoir's, but Van Gogh's best pictures are explosive compounds of joy and sorrow, more calculated to disturb than to please. Never a shadow of sorrow crosses Renoir's canvases; he painted simple, earthly pleasures...
...skills, special interests and special viewpoints on one hand and the national interest on the other. Eisenhower, with his long experience of the military staff system, is familiar with this fundamental problem. He respects his department heads far more than Franklin Roosevelt respected his, but he stands less in awe of his military and diplomatic chiefs than did Harry Truman. Naturally, this is especially true in Defense Secretary Charles Erwin Wilson's field, where Eisen hower operates with great self-confidence. Unlike President Truman, who preferred to have the National Security Council prepare a recommendation that he could adopt...
...Idaho's bull-grading system, kept his scattered clientele well supplied with learned but simple reports. Traveling by car, train and horse, he became a familiar figure in the barns and ranch houses of Idaho, and wherever he went, his rambling advice was awaited and welcomed almost with awe. "You'd think," says one cattleman, "that he wasn't listening to you at all. And then after a while, Riney would say something. Then he'd start for the door, stop there and say something else, then pick up his hat and say something else...
...with terror and loveliness a day begins in the woods of central Sweden, begins a picture that with passion, awe and tender intuition takes the watcher deep into the primeval forest, and there turns him loose among the beasts of the field. The film was made under fearful difficulties by Arne Sucksdorff (Struggle for Survival, Shadows on the Snow), a 38-year-old Swede who is clearly one of the world's finest film artists...