Word: awe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PECK'S GREATEST ASSET is a lively imagination. In one piece, she sends her dancers on a library tour that initiates the young student into the awe inspiring depths of stacks of dusty volumes. But these industrious kids do more than just listen to the tour guide. They are literally and physically carried away by the "waves of knowledge" contained in the library. Their hands twitch at the thought of all that "knowledge at their fingertips." Almost all of the dances in the first act display this whimsy. It is a quality that enhances both the assumed playfulness...
...appealed to the national myth of God's country and the manly fantasy of Huck Finn's flight from Aunt Sally and her civilizing ways. In the 49th state, one confronted a mystical vastness in which solitude is often confused with freedom. John Rothchild is drawn to a less awe-inspiring part of America: Florida, where the descendants & of the King and the Duke turned swamp into playgrounds and retirement pastures...
...Florence Henderson, Teri Garr, Shelley Winters) bends and stretches to big-band music while Debbie cracks jokes and offers encouragement. Considerably more demanding is Raquel Welch's Total Beauty and Fitness. The 44-year-old star folds her body into positions that will leave most of her viewers in awe. The macho Armed Forces Workout has unexpected touches of humor: a tough drill sergeant barks commands to the accompaniment, at one point, of Culture Club's Do You Really Want to Hurt...
...mostly about big money in high places, of cash siphoned from Hughes' Nevada gambling casinos and piped to politicians. Wielding the only power he knew, the deranged industrialist reveals a crude cynicism. On Lyndon Johnson: "I have done this kind of business with him before. So, he wears no awe-inspiring robe of virtue with me." On Hubert Humphrey: "A candidate who needs us and wants our help . . . somebody we control sufficiently." On Richard Nixon: "My man. He I know for sure knows the facts of life...
...Carnegie Foundation's Boyer is openly dazzled by satellite learning, saying that it may represent "the space-age model for the future." In fact, the report has a tendency to stand in awe of the whole phenomenon of corporate learning. While it acknowledges the difference between education for profit by a corporation and for life preparation by a university, there is a strong implication throughout that higher education should embark on a careful self- reappraisal based on the corporate classroom...