Word: awe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world naturally looks with some awe upon a man who appears unconcernedly indifferent to home, money, comfort, rank, or even power and fame. The world feels not without a certain apprehension, that here is someone outside its jurisdiction; someone before whom its allurements may be spread in vain; someone strangely enfranchised, untamed, untrammelled by convention, moving independently of the ordinary currents of human action; a being readily capable of violent revolt or supreme sacrifice, a man, solitary, austere, to whom existence is no more than a duty, yet a duty to be faithfully discharged. He was indeed a dweller upon...
...Point of View." Among many scientists Oppenheimer is held in high esteem, and even awe. Yet a number of his colleagues came before the security board, in answer to subpoenas, and testified against him. Among them was Dr. Luis Alvarez, professor of physics at the University of California, who was on the staff at Los Alamos during World War II (he helped develop the detonating mechanism for the atomic bomb). In September 1949, after the Russians exploded an atomic bomb, Dr. Alvarez and Dr. Lawrence decided to push for development of the H-bomb. Nearly all of the scientists they...
There is even more to Mrs. Robinson's job; technically, she is also the personal secretary to Professor Taylor. This has now become the least time-consuming of her many functions, however, for as Taylor explains-with obvious awe of his secretary's importance-"I try to bother her as little as possible...
...animals who compete with the elements, with the clock, with weight or age or strength or with each other, in the name of sport. But a true champion's feats endure because of what the champion himself adds: an undying spirit of competition, an ability to inspire awe, a willingness to gamble on losing, the guts to lose and rise again, an elusive mixture of spirit and showmanship. Whatever it is called?flair, class, style or what Hemingway once termed "grace under pressure"?it is the quality that breeds sport legend...
...good news" ... To Barth-and much of European Protestantism-Christianity appears to be a means for coming to terms with a world which man makes worse but cannot make better . . . The result is that U.S. churches are largely "activist"; Europe's largely "escapist" ... In view of the awe in which, among some American churchmen, Europe's theologians are held, Dr. Van Dusen and those of his mind have a large but a prophetic job cut out for them...