Word: awed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...your explanation of the name Jerusalem, you would find an illuminating reason by reading on a little farther in the Babylonian Talmud you quoted. This is the manner in which our sages put it: Abraham called it Jeruh (Hebrew for awe) and Shem, the son of Noah, called it Salem (for peace or completeness). And the L~d said, "If I call it Jeruh as Abraham did, then the righteous Shem will be insulted, and if I call it Salem as Shem did then the righteous Abraham will be insulted. I will therefore call it as both did -Jerusalem...
Since then, the discarded original version has been performed rarely-and, as far as is known, never in the Western Hemisphere. But two years ago, Boston Symphony Conductor Erich Leinsdorf found a copy of the 1805 score in a Prague bookshop, was struck by its "awe-inspiring" power, and thought it would make an effective concert presentation at the Boston Symphony's summer home at Tanglewood, near Lenox, Mass. Last week, afier Leinsdorf conducted a boldly sculptured, energy-charged U.S. premiere of the work at Tanglewood, it was emphatically clear that he had been right...
...inexperienced youngsters (some of whom showed up for work with switchblades) a series of magnificent life studies. One unforgettable moment: Ellen O'Mara as the Fat Girl, at a school dance in the arms of the English teacher (Patrick Bedford) she idolizes, her square pudding face aglow in awe and beatification. At such moments, rare in cinematic annals, the camera uses unadorned reality as its point of departure and comes around full circle...
...professionalism that eventually forges a bond between them. As Poitier zeroes in on the murderer, Steiger's resentment turns to childish awe, and finally to wary respect. It is Poitier who refuses to bend. In one scene he slaps a white man across the face and looses a stream of anti-white venom...
...hope that the spectacle of two groups of Harvard snobs berating each other for their snobbery has repaid the summies for any slight blow to their egos. But I also hope that it gave them, as the stared in awe at Widener, a moment's pause. If this community cannot take a reasonably harmless joke on itself, then the "I Go Here in the Winter" buttons have even less value than their creator would like to believe. Stephen Nightingale...