Word: awe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Supernovae, often considered the most awe-inspiring of all astronomical phenomena, also happen to be some of the rarest, as only six have been recorded in the last 2000 years. Yet, it is one of the few astronomical occurances that can be observed "by a man in the street or a Harvard undergraduate that happens to be around at the right time," says Frederick D. Seward, one of the world's experts on such phenomena...
...Harvard for the arts," says Brustein, a theatrical director who brought the American Repertory Theater with him from Yale in 1979. "But I don't think it's an unchangeable situation. It's changed a lot in the last five years. A lot of people have discovered the awe of the arts...
...course of an awkward, misbegotten summer holiday, the captivating old egotist outrides his son on horseback, humiliates him with the neighbors at the dinner table, even beguiles the young wife into joining excursions her husband will not. In his 40th year, Tom finds his father as big and awe inspiring as he did throughout childhood, when he waited in vain to be noticed...
...tasteful. Two former members of Jackson's staff saw fit to lend their defunct chief's name and memory to the hard-pressed Gardner, perhaps with the hope of rectifying their unemployment caused by Jackson's untimely demise. Men of former eras might have been deterred by their awe of the dead; but with luck the Senator's spirit was still a true Democrat at heart...
Though Americans have reason to be grateful to the Maoris for entrusting their sacred treasures to the care of foreign museums, the tribesmen themselves take scarcely any credit for the marvels wrought by their artists over a thousand years. One traditional Maori poet declares, "The authority, the awe, the divine and the artistry,/ I inherited these gifts from my ancestors.'' -By Patricia Blake