Word: awe
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When Halley's comet last appeared in 1910, blazing a brilliant trail across the skies, it was greeted with a mixture of awe, hysteria and hoopla. Some of the awe remains, and thanks in part to British Airways, some of the hoopla will be recaptured when the comet approaches earth again. Last week the airline announced that for (pounds)30, or about $42, it is offering the "flight of a lifetime" on four moonless nights in December and January...
...last year, and spent much of his life in hospitals. As his condition worsened, he asked to talk to President Reagan about the hungry children of Africa. Before Michael died, Reagan sent him a letter that said, "Your concern for others, even as you struggle with your health, is awe-inspiring...
...government was not resolved in Thompson's favor until 1944. Then, when the works could be legally displayed, the Peabody had neither the room nor the funds for an exhibition. Never before seen by the public, this precious cache of Maya objects evokes some of the same sense of awe and wonder that assailed Thompson 81 years ago when he drew the first glistening jewel out of the murk...
Unlike the rest of us, Sean was never really in awe of Harvard. A graduate of Patrick Henry High School in San Diego, where he lettered in three sports, Doyle says. "I thought Harvard was in Connecticut." Recruited to play volleyball, a quintessentially Californian sport that has hardly taken hold in beachless Cambridge, he had never even seen Harvard until he arrived on September 9, 1981. He was, he recalls, "the ultimate California...
...delightfully egotistical--and yet, by the end, humbled-Maximilion. Shining out from the rest, however, is Hughes Cunegonde. In her last prominent Harvard production, Hughes displays her talent as perhaps the best undergraduate soprano in recent years. She brings to Cunegonde a spectacular verve and vibrancy most noticably her awe-inspiring solo, "Glitter and be Gay." Here, she mixes her characters sorrow and desolation at being separated from Candide and at being a where with her absolute glee with the baubles and jewels given her. Her vocal strength during the song combines with her splendid duties with Meredith to bring...