Word: awe
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Forget about black monoliths. If the late great Stanley Kubrick had known what was going to be really cool by the year 2001, his seminal movie would have opened with 25 million ape-descendants clustered silently round an awe-inspiring and somewhat unreal auction house. Then to the tune of the Blue Danube, some bizarrely diverse items would shoot weightlessly through the ether - sterling silver Jaguar cars, Sherlock Holmes first editions, Xerox networked printers, a pair of Madonna concert tickets, an ostrich-egg incubator - moving at a rate of 5 million purchases per day. The climactic scene, perhaps, would feature...
...Greenspan turns out to be right, by summer U.S. businesses will be able to imagine healthy growth again, the markets will embark on a slow and steady bull run, and sometime in early 2002 Greenspan will be acknowleged, with fresh awe, to have Done It Again...
...read with awe how The Crimson...
...analysis ought to be cultivated early, as the Playdough in the hands is as pliant as the Playdough in the head. This drive need only be guided and focused by educators further down the line, as the planted seeds of inquiry and thought grow to fruition. If the paralyzing awe of the world can be buttressed to withstand adolescence, the fertile mental fields and greater freedoms of youth will couple with this wonder to create a lust for lifelong learning...
...National Team defenseman Tara Mounsey--whose career at Brown ended a year early last season--was one of the first players to leave Flanagan in awe...