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...Emerald City of Oz," should certainly accomplish that. Although the exterior of the temple is striking-288 ft. tall from the ground to the tip of the Angel Moroni's trumpet and encased in 173,000 sq. ft. of gleaming white Alabama marble-the interior does not inspire awe. Divided into dozens of rooms on nine levels, the temple has nothing comparable to the great nave and towering sanctuary of a traditional Christian cathedral. Indeed, the Mormon temple is not built for regular worship (that purpose is served by thousands of local "ward" meetinghouses) but for "temple work...
...impeachment should rest "not upon the niceties of a narrow jurisprudence, but upon the enlarged and solid principles of state morality." Three times the chairman read Historian Michael Les Benedict's 1973 book entitled The Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson. Rodino was frank enough to admit his awe at his onrushing responsibilities. "I lie awake at nights," he once admitted. "I just hope I'll be able to live up to them...
...into battle dressed in everything from blue jeans to World War II helmets and armed with anything from shotguns to ancient bolt-action Lee-Enfield rifles. The reserves, like the regulars, fought with verve and frequent gallantry. Near the coastal resort of Famagusta, TIME Correspondent Karsten Prager watched in awe as a Greek Cypriot mobile unit that consisted of a Fiat, a BMW and a bright red open-top MG tried to turn the flank of a Turkish column...
Americans have followed Alexander Solzhenitsyn's distant struggle with the Soviet government and his final, forced hegira into exile with the kind of awe that might attend the trial and burning of Joan of Arc. He is the world's most celebrated writer. The Gulag Archipelago, with massive printings now pouring its cornucopia of Communist cruelties into book clubs and bookstores all over the U.S., seems about to become his most popular work...
Kearns said, "it's a sobering and ridiculous thought that the next generation of leaders will be my friends and I instead of the elders who were looked upon with awe and scorn...