Word: awed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...businessman or scientist whose leisure-time intake during the past year has consisted of The Spy Who Came In from the Cold and 94 pages of The Group, even the lip-moving fellow commuter who mumbles his way through a Leon Uris novel is someone to be regarded with awe. The nonreading executive often feels like an Edgar Allan Poe character who is slowly but surely being sealed off from the rest of the world by a wall of unread books. At the wall's foundation are the Pickwick Papers, Moby Dick, Paradise Lost, Plato's Dialogues, Henry...
...growing sideline with Gornitzka is advising other ministers on how to deal with rich constituents. He is convinced that many pastors stand in awe of the well-to-do. But if a camel can go through the eye of a needle easier than a rich man can enter the kingdom of God, it would appear that plain preachers can often give the rich a little extra spiritual help...
...leader of a gang credited with close to 250 murders in the past six years; by gunfire, in an attack on his suburban Bogotá hideout by 425 soldiers using tear gas, rifles, machine guns and a 40-mm. anti-aircraft gun, while thousands of civilians looked on in awe...
...Verge? How, he asks, can such a God evoke the awe and reverence that is at the heart of religion? Arnold Come of San Francisco Theological Seminary makes his critical point with an example: "Two men, an existentialist and a process theologian, go to Selma. The existentialist goes saying, 'The love of Christ that has been born in me responds to the brutality and the terror, and because it does, I have to go and stand beside my Christian brothers.' Is this really self-sacrificing love? Or is it really self-seeking love? The process theologian goes...
Schulz, a 20-year TIME subscriber, declared himself awed by the choice, but overcame his awe sufficiently to draw for the cover the group portrait of his characters. He allows, that he caught Charlie in one of his rare happy moments-delighted no doubt that he finally made...