Word: awed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...action that are genius - rests largely with the stage director, David Mills. If he is responsible for the choreography of the chorus, he deserves congratulations; if he created the gestures, the Victorian self-mockery, the hands that reach out of the curtain so that things conveniently disappear, he merits awe...
Most americans have never heard of him. 'But in Moscow, Pelé is a popular hero. When he walks the streets of Stock holm, troops of children dog his heels, touching his black arms in awe. In Madrid, his name ranks with Ordoñez and Dominguin. and the next time he is in London, he will be presented to the Queen. He gets 200 letters a week from all over the world, many addressed simply "Pelé" - with no country. Back home in Brazil, he is Edson Arantes do Nascimento. and ambitious politicians are forever trying to shake...
...regard the question as his chief concern. He and Guzzetti make a simpler use of the medieval setting, for they adopt it to capitalize upon the mystic aura of the medieval church, upon the color of the liturgy's communalism and ritual. Borrowed to produce its very immediate awe, the opera's medievalism is a facile expedient for proclaiming the profundity of the drama; by the last scene the sections in more obvious liturgical setting have become annoyingly irrelevant. The two writers are not, of course, alone in this abuse. The same pretentious archaism afflicts, for instance, the Verses from...
Crossing the chasm between high school and Harvard often converts the all-round boy into the Lamont Lodger or the House Hermit. The Lamont Lodger is overwhelmed, either in awe or fear, by the Academic Opportunities the College offers, and he takes what he thinks to be the best advantage of them. The House Hermit, while resisting the academic pressures, hesitates to jeopardize grades by getting involved in something besides them; in fact, he hesitates three and a half years until he wakes up one morning and finds himself turned into an IBM card...
...using such a method to state a son's widening awe of a rare father, the author obliged himself not only to retell the beautiful Chiron myth, but to give at least some attention to Prometheus-even though his intent is not to translate myths into modern terms, but to illuminate a modern hero's death with myths. Updike slights Prometheus, and his book surfers. The reader learns little more than that Peter is bright, has psoriasis (the vulture's peck, presumably), and that as an adult he is a second-rate abstract painter with a Negro...