Word: awe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...much as it did before Torch Song. He still lives at home, and after the performances of Brighton Beach, he, his mother and a high school friend will often sit up late and watch old TV programs, particularly The Honeymooners. "Jackie Gleason is god," says Broderick with some awe. A steady income has enabled him to pursue an interest in astronomy. On a clear night he will sometimes take one of his three telescopes up to the roof of his apartment building; from there, even with the lights of Manhattan around him, he can see the moons of Jupiter...
...would expect of a Harvard crew captain. His father went to Yale. His mother went to Radcliffe Rogers is a product of Winchester, Mass, where one Harry Parker also happens to reside Rogers spent five years rowing for Brown and Nichols, and recalls watching the Harvard boats with awe as they glided along the Charles River...
...family. He manages to be fair to people he has every reason to despise: he evokes the grievances of the guerrillas as fully as their treachery, the gullibility of the villagers as well as their jealousy and spite. Painfully, he recalls the mother whom he revered with the absolute awe and devotion of a child. Yet as he tells the story of her utter heroism, he views her with a journalist's balance and detachment...
...what truly keeps Goldman are the Heroes, people who transcend the crap, who can still impress and awe him the way Tarzan Finds a Son did when he was the only kid Highland Park, Illinois crazy enough to see the same movie twice. For various reasons, among his heroes are Oliver, Robert Wagner, Bob Woodward, Richard Attenborough, but most of all, Paul Newman...
Modern man's awe of nature has pretty much atrophied. Primitive man stood in still wonder in the presence of the seamless order of the elements and took violent fissures of that order as omens of supernatural wrath. Today such disasters are rationalized as freakish accidents, not as shattering revelations of immutable forces that man may never tame...