Word: awed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Television on tape or film often suffers from loss of spontaneity, but it frequently makes up the loss with a quality of intimacy and awe. CBS last week ran off two such engaging programs...
...Hillman, the other four call him the Ghost Rider, because "he can draw fast enough to shoot a knife that's being thrown at him." He has a wonderful habit of bending the final electronic note of his beautiful guitar solos--a habit which invaliably draws a series of awe-struck screams from his delighted fans, the audiences happy to discover a 3-performance-old group in Cambridge who know where it's at, and enjoy letting...
...chains, but spoiled by the sweet taste of humanity that some of his masters allowed. "I will say this, without which you cannot understand the central madness of nigger existence," he explains. "Beat a nigger, starve him, leave him wallowing, and he will be yours for life. Awe him by some unforeseen hint of philanthropy, tickle him with the idea of hope, and he will want to slice your throat...
Styron's development of the relationship between Samuel Turner and Nat, if not among the most imaginative parts of the book, is certainly among the most sensitive and interesting. The slave boy viewed his master in awe, as almost divine. The master, in turn, when he saw a young spark of interest, gave Nat the encouragement and opportunity to learn to read...
...accounts of the murder are evoked by distorted and double-image pictures of it (one on a giant television screen). Doctors presiding at the operating table are shown poised over the body like apostles at the Last Supper. "Assassination," explains Friedensohn. "is like patricide, deicide. It provokes a religious awe...