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Word: awe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...name, with due basso-profundo pomp, this way: Rush (as in rush to hear him while he's hot) Limbaugh (as in awe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Conservative Provocateur Or BIG BLOWHARD? | 10/26/1992 | See Source »

...Science thus established the current Age of Faith, re-creating the Creator. Nowadays, only the fool says in his heart, "There is no God." The question now becomes which God: the amorphous Soul of fashionable cults, the antiseptic First Principle of science, or the personal God who still inspires awe and commands commitment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kingdoms To Come | 10/15/1992 | See Source »

MANKIND'S RECORD OF INVENtion and discovery is an unfinished epic of awe and wonder. In his widely (and justly) praised The Discoverers (1983), historian Daniel J. Boorstin narrated with scholarly elan the saga of man's quest for knowledge of the world and himself. Now he has essayed what his book's subtitle calls "a history of heroes of the imagination." The Creators' range is impressive, from the Vedic hymns of ancient India to the modern cinema. The end result, alas, is considerably less exciting than its predecessor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Conventional Wisdom | 10/12/1992 | See Source »

...Jewish comics and writers and composers, their amazing gift for parody and synthesis. Folks who would never care to be near "those people" want to watch them, learn how to walk or talk from them -- be them, at least for that spotlight moment. Maybe it is America's awe at the drive of these performers to be good and be loved that makes show biz one part of the multicultural experiment that really works...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Funny, He Looks Jewish | 10/5/1992 | See Source »

...Brand New Heavies are the best hip hop imports from England since Mony Love. Their third album, which will again feature the awe-in-spiring vocalist N'dea Davenport, cannot come soon enough...

Author: By Daniel J. Sharfstein, | Title: Way-Hep Hip Hop | 10/1/1992 | See Source »

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