Word: awe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when this "hard core of lovely, pure young boys" stands up and speaks in Boston, they are booed and heckled off the platform. Father Feeney is listened to in silence and awe. After his meetings, the crowd splits into little groups to argue the points they had just heard, and violence in these debates has been frequent...
...preparations for dinner began at 6:30 p.m. and it was 9 p.m. before we could sit down to eat. "I've only been in this racket for a couple of weeks," Al whispered. The somewhat awe-stricken guests sat down without a word...
Dunster House friends are understandably a bit in awe of Hart. He is known as the only man in the College who, when he asks "Does anyone want to take a run over to Watertown with me?" really means...
What is it that Princeton has and Harvard hasn't? "Just a very hard-working group of alumni," Craig admits quite frankly. The persistence and persuasiveness of Princeton alumni on the track of a "good well-qualified" boy is regarded with awe by other college admission offices. "We'd like to be able to explain those teams by saying they bought the players," says one high Ivy Group official, "but it just...
Despite the premium put on their displaying a bag of tricks, both Leigh and Brando may well be heading for Academy Awards. Likewise, Kim Hunter does an outstanding job in the supporting role of Stanley's wife Stella, and Karl Malden is excellent as an awe-struck suitor. Camera work and the musical score are both exceptional. But the net effect of Kazan's direction is more controversial. He has charged the atmosphere to the saturation point with crisis and climax. After two hours trapped in a narrow room with Blanche, sitting under her spray of words alternately cloying...