Word: awed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their gray earnestness and self-importance, Harvard people want to laugh. Their critical broadsides are reserved for those works of art or literature which inspire awe, love, shame, or any other of the serious emotions. When something makes them chuckle, they are strangely uncritical and wildly appreciative. Harvard dissects the guts out of Dickens and Wagner; it eulogizes Gilbert and Sullivan...
...Cambridge, however, the capacity crowd of 15,000 showed up in the Yard not so much in expectation of seeing history made, as simply in awe of the man. Few public figures before or since have inspired such admiration among those in the Harvard community as George Catlett Marshall...
...were talking about even more. The University police ("gosh, it's the fuzz" according to one boy from a reform school); men in uniform who actually smiled and talked to the kids; the welcome they received in University buildings that usually throw them out: all these they saw with awe...
...mind while I'm doing it.'' The book bears a sweet, refreshing smell of hay. and - considering the risk involved - surprisingly little corn. The hero, at least, has a golden heart, not a golden arm. The book is a faithful portrait of a man in awe of heaven who finally goes there, leaving an estate worth...
Gideon, by Paddy Chayefsky, treats God and man as humorous and crotchety back-fence neighbors, but the formidable acting gifts of Fredric March as God and Douglas Campbell as Gideon strike occasional sparks of awe...