Word: awed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clubs and love-ins. He gives many concerts in hospitals, prisons and schools for handicapped children, where his music often has a therapeutic effect. When he played for the children of a school for the deaf in Los Angeles, they reacted with smiles, laughter and expressions of awe, calling him back for two encores. In ways that are not fully understood by doctors, the emotional response to his primal sounds-the musical equivalent of finger painting-has even aided retarded children in learning to sing...
...people within it, like Hofer, have found a life style of their own. It is a life style which rejects the values of middle class conservatism and prudishness as forcefully as do today's revolutionaries. It is a life style which looks with some awe and some reverence at the history of men and in its own way, affirms the existence of beauty and love...
...been a fine middleweight for a time. Boxers and jazzmen were the great folk heroes of that culture. In George's youth, long before black men were allowed into other fields of sports and entertainment, the fighter and the musician were looked upon with reverence and awe. These men, who could beat the hell out of white men with impunity, or blow the corny white society bands off the stand, these men were half-gods in the eyes of their brothers. The jazzman is still respected on the back streets of New Orleans. "Take me," George would...
Last weekend featured some better than average, though not awe-inspiring meals, an outdoor concert, and some cartoons in the courtyard. The concert irked some people who felt the academic atmosphere was jeopardized, perhaps shattered. For the most part, however, reaction was encouraging and many people took advantage of the offerings...
...those close to Ethel and to the life she has reconstructed regard her with something approaching awe. She has, they contend, emerged in many ways as the most remarkable member of her remarkable family. New York's Senator Jacob Javits describes her with absolute conviction as "the greatest of the Kennedys, male or female...