Word: awed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...everything from domestic output to world trade, whose growth shrank to a 7% rate from the 9% of a year ago. Despite all that, it was far from being a bad year for business. The U.S. continued to be prosperous; its economy, the abundance of which mankind holds in awe and envy, simply fell short of optimistic expectations. Western Europe experienced its slowest economic growth in a decade-but growth, however slow, remains growth. As William Butler, vice president of the Chase Manhattan Bank, puts it: "Never have so many had it so good and felt so badly about...
...cigar-cutter holder in champagne-tanned platypus pouch. Avoiding today's exhaustive and exhausting travel writing, this volume combines 18th century illustrations with prose from the past. The travelers' tales date from the period when English was at its best and travel did not exclude wonder, awe, respect-and suspicion. "The first thing an Englishman does on going abroad is to find fault with what is French, because it is not English," says William Hazlitt. On the other hand, in his splendidly evocative preface, the very contemporary prose stylist Anthony Burgess asserts: "In the most enlightened phases...
...great Georgian house in County Wicklow. The sumptuous interiors on display evoke the spacious days when every European princeling was building his own little Versailles and architects like Nash, Vanbrugh, Inigo Jones and Wyatt were adapting Italian magnificence for English country gentlemen. The modern eye can only goggle in awe at heroic staircases, ceilings bulging with putti, acres of marble floors reflecting miles of gilded plaster. Magnificence had become largely a semi-public affair, as in Queen Victoria's railway carriage (sapphire satin and tasseled draperies with a white quilted ceiling) and not merely ostentatious, as in the dining...
...manner of his death. We get only glimpses of Jarrell in the book of memorials. None of the writers attempt a miniature biography, but the anecdotes all add to the same picture of paradoxical man, warm to those he respected, yet always distant enough to be awe-inspiring...
This viciously competitive streak poured over into what he wrote. His writing had the same sparkle as his talk, and the contributors are as much in awe of the man's power with words as they were with the man. Most of them are conscious of the irony of writing a volume of eulogitic criticism on Jarrell, for he was the most violent and the most effective of professional critics...