Word: awe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your Essay was the most dastardly defamation of a great, sincere and brilliant American President I have ever read. The masses of his countrymen understand Johnson and love him deeply. I prophesy that he and his Great Society will go down in history with awe and reverence...
EVEREST: THE WEST RIDGE by Thomas F. Hornbein. 198 pages. Sierra Club. $25. The sheer sight of Mount Everest, its 29,028-ft. summit supporting the roof of the world, strikes awe in the hearts of mountaineers and non-mountaineers alike. It is a pity that this otherwise magnificent full-color photographic record of the 1963 U.S. expedition includes only one full portrait of the mountain, and that a distant one. The book also could have supplied a map tracing the Americans' course, as well as the routes of the two other successful climbs, the first being the British...
Within the student body, high grades are a definite status symbol. In a school surfeited with Phi Betas and Fulbrights, the high-ranking students are regarded with awe. Everyone knows the ranking of the top 30 students. On more than one occasion, the top-ranked student has been pointed out to parents and dates as a type of tourist attraction, to be seen along with Langdell Hall and the statue of John Harvard in the Yard...
CRIMSON editors held "Art" in awe from the day he first stepped into the building in 1929. His unmatched competence pulled together many a thoroughly disorganized staff. He was the paper's most loyal member, but he criticized it regularly, and his rare written tributes were the CRIMSON editor's equivalent of a Pulitzer Prize...
...American self-consciousness where it hurts. Mr. Lasch intelligently sidesteps the more frequently trodden paths: stories of the dispossessed who mooned in Europe with Harold Stearns, then returned to claim their inheritence with Malcolm Cowley after the Crash; tales of the flagellants who during the '30's stood in awe of greasy Communist bosses and parroted Granville Hick's latest decoctations of Stalin on Proust...