Word: awe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lehrman didn't inspire much awe a few months ago. Perhaps second only to Koch himself, Lehrman has the physical air of chicken man Frank Perdue gone Ivy League. Scion of a wealthy family, Lehrman seemed a poor little rich boy with the improbable trademark of a pair of red suspenders--hardly a marketing package designed to sell well in most parts of the state...
...ANDERS WEINSTEIN '83, being vale edictoriem in high school was a serious matter. In the first place, he represented the student body of one of New York's most prestigious schools, stuyvesant And Carnegic Hall, the location of the ceremonies, could inspire the awe of even the most poised performer. So as Weinstein strode to the podium to begin his speech, he was understandably nervous. Even his closest friends were not then sure he would go through with the routine as planned...
Their gazes mix awe and deep familiarity and shyness. They are blue-collar people, or else small farmers who work these hills. Mostly they have rough, country faces and washed, flat, distantly Celtic eyes. People in wheelchairs are pushed up to his wheelchair, and George Wallace reaches out the gentlest communing hands to them, and spends long moments with each, consoling and almost, one thinks, healing. He has the nimbus of saint and martyr-or at any rate, of a celebrity who has passed through the fire and the greater world; he has come back to them from history, come...
...goes along ... I look very hard, then make it up as I go along." The idea of "sub lime" American landscape is fairly worn currency by now; there are too many generalized cliches of in stant grandeur attached to it. What saves Welliver's sense of awe at large scale is his sense of fact...
...drama, the moment is effective; as cinema, it is unremarkable; as a display of new-fashioned star quality, it is radiant. But, oh, the ruckus it raised, as the movie reeled surprisingly toward blockbuster status last winter and spring. No audience could watch Jane without murmuring in tones of awe, "Look...