Word: awe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...learned to take chances from his father Walter, who quit his job of 21 years with the J.J. Newberry chain of five-and-dimes to purchase a bankrupt children's clothing store in New Castle, Indiana. "Talk about courage," recalls Allen, still in admiration and awe...
MAHLER CALLED HIM A GENIUS; Richard Strauss held him in awe; Puccini said he could give away half his talent and still have plenty left over. Schoenberg? Stravinsky? No, the recipient of these accolades was a wunderkind from Vienna named Erich Wolfgang Korngold. The son of the city's leading music critic, young Korngold had written a large body of music before he turned 15, including a piano sonata for Artur Schnabel, and achieved international success in 1920 at the age of 23 with his romantic opera Die Tote Stadt (The Dead City). It seemed possible that he would...
...Erin, you are my hero," said the rookie with the sort of respect that can only come from a freshman in awe of a teammate and leader...
Captain of the crew team at Phillips Exeter Academy, Lerner rowed for four years in high school as well, but remembers falling for the sport as a kid in Philadelphia, gaping in awe at the Boathouse Row on the Schuykill River...
...could have reminisced about The Moments I Will Always Remember: sitting alone and awe-struck in Detroit's famous Joe Louis Arena watching the zamboni prepare the ice, or almost falling over the dangerously designed Boston Garden Press Box as I sweated out in glee Harvard's upset of Boston University in the 1993 Beanpot final...