Word: awe
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...office still subdues people, still reduces the critical faculties of those who come into the epicenter. In these days, about the only people allowed the special view of the President are the ones who already are Nixon boosters. They are caught in the presidential spell, which is part awe and part fear, and the realities of Nixon and his life in the White House that might give him a third dimension are never carried out of the office...
Four times in the first two pages she uses the word "mystery." With a kind of metaphysical awe she notes that there are 228 muscles in the head of a caterpillar, 6 million leaves on a big elm, 14 billion root hairs on a rye plant. Then she drops her bomb on Eden: Why? "My God what a world. There is no accounting for one second of it," she cries. "The question from agnosticism is, Who turned on the lights? The question from faith is, Whatever...
...important part of this growing fan cynicism is the professional athlete's increasing preoccupation with money. This is not to condemn the athletes, for they were underpaid in the past. Yet while competition between leagues has increased salaries, so too has it torn down the veneer of awe that used to separate the fan and the player. The player has become a highly publicized, salaried worker. He has stepped down from the pedestal as a result of his own doing. Like other American workers, he goes to the highest bidder...
There is a growing suspicion, too, amply borne out by these three books-one Victorian, one turn-of-the-century, one from the great Depression-that a special truthfulness resides in pictures produced by a photographer who confronts his subjects steadily and holds them in affection or awe...
...History, serves as a good example. I hardly know Professor Woodside; I took his course on Vietnam and I asked him occasionally for explanations about Indochina developments. But his quiet dedication to his craft has impressed me, and those of us who have gained from him an increasing awe for Vietnam and its history are thankful. This University should belong to the people like Professor Woodside, and we are fortunate that they are around in its quiet corners...