Word: awe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...golfers' awe of Nicklaus-this prehistoric bear-is so gigantic that on meeting him, many people are surprised that he is under 6 ft. Is this the man who bashes the ball so hard and so high and leaves "bear tracks" in the green to chill Johnny Miller? "Don't disturb the bear," Lee Trevino shuddered, even when Trevino was disturbing him greatly. Watson was the first to come along who really thought he was the equal of Nicklaus, and he is the only one Nicklaus truly came to regard as a peer. Over the past six years...
Still, something central seems to be conveyed in the teaching of literature beyond a particular point of view, something in the attitude of the teacher toward both his students and the books: his concentration, his appreciation, occasionally his awe. Awe can be a powerful pedagogical instrument, the sight of someone overwhelmed overwhelming by refraction. True, the relationship of teacher to the work of art is that of a middleman, but in the best circumstances the middleman becomes a magnifying glass ("Do you see this?"). Instead of intruding between Yeats and his reader, he shows Yeats in the light, reveals...
Whew! prayers were smoldering, eyes were moist, a first strike of prayers soared the the Kremlin. As the band played Onward, Christian Soldiers, the collected evangelicals leaped to their feet in awe, realizing that the state of their art had reached a new pinnacle. Of course, the fallout started minutes later, in the media...
...contemporaries felt the same awe and wonder. In Washington's last years, Mount Vernon became a mecca for the great and the grateful, for the curious and the ambitious. So many people arrived at the doorstep that Washington, who would turn none away, finally engaged a social secretary to handle the flow. Sometimes he did not attend the dinners he gave because the company was so numerous and foreign to him. One night when he dined alone with Mrs. Washington, the event was so unusual he made a note of it in his diary...
...must stand in awe of them as unassailable, even though they are dissected before our eyes...