Word: awe
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...losing our childlike sense of wonder, curiosity and inquiry. The drive to produce, compete and conquer hardens us to the mysteries of life and the universe. The amazing achievement of Pathfinder, as well as other space missions, ought to reawaken in us that lost sense of wonder, awe and reverence. Rather than feeling cosmic loneliness, I for one sense a deeper, more abiding connection with the universe in all its mystery, which is still unfolding and is unending. DAVID T. MAYSCHAK Wasilla, Alaska...
...years, maybe too many years, Tyson has been boxing's feral child. Almost from the time that Cus D'Amato, his onetime trainer-father figure-psychic engineer, found him in upstate New York, the larger world has tried to put into some kind of balance the feelings Tyson inspires: awe, admiration, pity, disappointment, fear and loathing. By the time the sportswriters, columnists and comics were done with him last week, the balance was tipped against him more completely than ever. At the Hollywood Wax Museum in Los Angeles, Tyson's effigy was moved from the Sports Hall of Fame...
...philosopher Walter Berns, this position assumes real moral weight. "Capital punishment," writes Berns, "serves to remind us of the majesty of the moral order that is embodied in our law and of the terrible consequences of its breach... The criminal law must be made awful, by which I mean awe-inspiring, or commanding 'profound respect or reverential fear.' It must remind us of the moral order by which alone we can live as human beings." Which is to say, some animals need killing, if only to remind the rest of us animals how to live. By this standard, state executions...
...said that one must "rend his garments for the death of a teacher." In Deuteronomy (6: 7) children and students mean the same thing. The rabbinical literature of the Pirke Avot lists 48 ways to be an ideal teacher. One must have an understanding heart and a sense of awe at the mystery of life and of other human beings. The mere act of teaching implies that one wishes the world well...
What I have come to realize is that while none of us can dispute that Harvard is big, the joy of being an undergraduate is discovering that Harvard is big in all the right ways. The physical structure itself is breathtaking. I am daily awe-struck by the beauty of a sunny spring day in Radcliffe Yard, the majesty of the Eliot tower presiding over the Charles and the expanse of Cambridge viewed from the wide windows of the Mather high rise. The possibilities for learning are equally awesome, with a course for every interest and with endless seminars, colloquia...