Word: awe
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...Amis hasn't made any waves on this side of the Atlantic...At Oxford, Amis is a normal topic of discussion." That statement is a firm justification for doing away with those semester-abroad programs. The pompous and presumptuous Hagar had just the perfect amount of self-righteousness and awe of the crown to be an absurd satire in an Amis novel. John Burke Boston...
...view, the book runs its words over Robert's body as if they were the fingers or lips of a new lover. He is hard, an animal, physical and spiritual. Her orgasms are liberating, exhausting visits to a land where he is king. ("Robert," she exclaims in postcoital awe, "you're so powerful, it's frightening!") In the age of facetiousness, could any director film this without giggling? Would any actor dare display himself as such a paragon of pagan love...
...those who watch her play. She went from 7th nationally to 5th to 3rd and finally 1st this year. She also led Harvard to an Ivy League and national championship, so I guess a portion of her trophy case should be left here for all to gaze in awe...
...Crumb wrote a Valentine to himself that reads like the pracis for a Dostoyevsky tale: "Girls are just utterly out of my reach. They won't even let me draw them." He became a cult sensation--and got lots of girls--by drawing them as monuments to his awe and fear of women. They are mammoth fertility totems; they dare the cringing Crumb cartoon male to deify or defile them. In his work Crumb does both, which has earned him no end of scorn from people with protective sensibilities...
AAAH, remember lunches in the Union--those days when you sat, nibbling at your chickwich in a crowd of entry mates, staring up in awe at the antler chandeliers and wondering if Teddy Roosevelt really had anything to do with them? Well, cherish that memory if you're not a senior. Once first-year dining has moved over to Memorial Hall, you won't even have a Return-to-the-Union "Champagne Senior Brunch" to remind...