Word: awe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...System Is a System. But it was not small talk and tiny deeds that made British diplomacy so successful. In a recent speech, Harold Nicolson, a scholarly ex-veteran of the Foreign Office, got to the point. "Continental critics and admirers," he said, "are united in the awe with which they regard the skill, persistence and flexibility that our diplomatists . . . have manifested in extracting advantage from the passions of less dispassionate countries...
...Verrocchio's workshops, to the awe of his master, Leonardo's genius unfolded. He learned in a few months almost all that Verrocchio could teach, and soared on through other arts and sciences. He soon played a lute, his countrymen said, more wondrously than any man alive; and the Florentine scientist, Paolo Toscanelli, found the country boy his most precocious pupil...
...Vichy government sentenced him to ten years in jail for conducting a virtual one-man war against German occupation. U.S. and British generals who served with him in Italy and France after his escape stood in constant awe, and De Lattre made sure that they continued to do so. Once he chewed out General Marshall himself because of a delayed shipment of supplies. Years later, informed that Marshall had forgotten the incident, De Lattre remarked: "Nonsense! The general is polite. Nobody whom I have castigated ever forgets...
...supposedly dominated by the female lead, Cicely Wayneflete. As played by Ann Revere this character is weak, inconsistent, and incapable of forcing the last act climax that Shaw envisioned. According to the script she is a woman who is to have her own way, and yet the awe with which her presence is greeted at the end of the first act hardly seems merited. One indeed wonders why her every word is met with instantaneous servility...
...they should be further thankful to director James Awe. Quite obviously Awe has this musical comedy business down cold. The actors are always audible. Their voices are gusty when necessary and moderated when inuendo is desired. The show moves along at a professional clip, scene changes are effected with a minimum of interrupting, and the sets are good...