Word: awe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...which is expanding at a rapid pace, such a prime political feeding ground? The main reason is that the Internet is vastly overrated by those who know nothing about it. The Internet seems futuristic--it comes with trendy catch-phrases such as "information superhighway" and "cyberspace." We listen in awe and wonder as CEOs explain to us, in layman's terms, the importance of "networking" and "global resources." With the Internet, they tell us, we can do everything conceivable with the stroke of a few keys. It will make our lives easier. How? Don't know. It just will...
Still, the fact remains: too many Harvard students are unconcerned about Europe. Perhaps their indifference stems from fear of the unknown, fear of admitting ignorance and learning from it, fear of a continent that for centuries Americans regarded with awe. Perhaps it stems from simply not making an effort to understand Europe...
Unless, of course, you think we're fast approaching a market top. My best Wall Street sources are in awe at how far stocks have risen in the past three years, and privately many say they are bracing for a fall. They won't necessarily be right. But the tough job scene for their ilk is evidence of their conviction. Keeping down head count in good times may be a grim new reality. But at some level it represents Wall Street's collective stab at timing the market...
...book and the movie, Jack is a guest star. His role is not so much supporting as hovering--like God in the Old Testament. He shows up occasionally to bring fear, awe or happiness to the mortals who are at the center of the story. He asks them to slaughter their first principles, hurls plagues of tabloid headlines their way, gives their lives meaning and hope with his captious majesty. Except, of course, that Jack isn't God. In luring his team toward corruption, twisting their idealism into realpolitik, Stanton is Satan...
...sculptor of the Roman Baroque, had to have been a deeply religious man. Nothing less than divine inspiration could have enabled him to create the works stamped with his trademark devotion--the extraordinarily vivid angels, seemingly descended directly from heaven in a swirl of fluid drapery, are instilled with awe and holy adoration that transcend the earthly constraints of clay...