Word: awe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...such a new world, reaching to the far horizon without break of tree or chimney stack: just sky and grass and grass and sky....The hush was so loud. As I lay in my unplastered upstairs room, the heavens seemed nearer than ever before and awe and beauty and mystery over...
...history of the time it's set in--not in an obtrusive, doctrinaire way, but as a distant backdrop which only infrequently comes into full focus. Wilson doesn't so much expound the politics of America during World War II--the confusion on the left, the economic uncertainty, the awe at America's slowly unflexing muscles--as weave it into his characters' histories. At great length, with much defensive joking and shuffling of feet. Matt tells the story of his family's victimization at the hands of the "Great Powers" of Europe during World War I: with even more reluctance...
...want to know how much arm-twisting Bernal had to do to get all those eager freshmen who looked on in awe as he held up that trophy last year. Well, if you are looking for a recruiting scandal the men's swim team is not the place to find...
...that way, however, the question is one of theology, not science. Though the growth of scientific knowledge has unquestionably undercut faith, creationists tend to ignore the fact that the awe-inspiring complexity of the universe, its grand design, has been made known to man mainly through the free inquiry of science. The true study of evolution, moreover, is a humbling experience that gives man only a tiny niche in the vast scheme of the universe. "Never lose a holy curiosity," Einstein once wrote. Says Astrophysicist Robert Jastrow: "Astronomers have proven that the creation of the universe is the result...
...Crimson's second of the season and its fourth triumph in the last five outings, boosts the icewomen's season ledger to 6-8 overall and 4-3 in the Ivies. Freshman sensation Cheryl Tate made ice sculptures of the Dartmouth forwards (frozen with their mouths open in awe), steering aside 22 Big Green drives en route to her first shutout ever...