Word: awed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Faculty members and administrators stand in awe of men of action. They are very frightened of them, and they respect them, because they know all about the laws of Physics. One of the wonderful things about an undemocratic university like Harvard is that men of action will always get their way. And men of action, most of the time, are good men. They are good because they not been socialized. Socialized men will almost never act. They believe too much in the system that they have been taught. Socialized men are middle class dullards and right-wingers. They only commit...
...separated from her in World War II. She complained that he took too few baths-and besides, she had her own career as novelist and journalist to follow. Hemingway classified her with his mother, whom he condemned as "a domineering shrew." Baker appears to stand discreetly in awe of Mary Hemingway (called "Papa's Pocket Rubens" by her husband), who stood by him from...
Steam? Shades of yesteryear! Gliding silently down the streets of early 20th century America, the Stanley Steamer left a wake of admiring glances and a slight whiff of kerosene. Buffs still speak with awe of the day in 1907 when a streamlined Steamer literally left the ground during a Florida test, hitting a speed of nearly 200 m.p.h. Trouble was, the old steamers took half an hour to get the pressure up and used water at so prodigious a rate that they had to stop for refills every few miles. They also had bulky boilers that blew up from time...
Like Bethlehem and Jerusalem, Nazareth is one of the holiest places in Christendom, but it has never enjoyed quite the same awe that the other two names evoke. For Christians, it is the town where Gabriel announced to Mary that she would be the mother of God, the town where Jesus grew up. But even in Biblical times it suffered from a bad press. When the apostle Philip told Nathanael that the Messiah had come from Nazareth, the Gospel of John reports, the incredulous answer was, "Can anything good come out of that place?" In modern times, tourist buses have...
...Great White Hope -- James Earl Jones' performance as black prize-fighter Jack Johnson is awe-inspiring--and makes a visit to this production worthwhile. But the play (by Howard Sackler) is generally awful and sometimes offensive -- unfocused, full of wretched excesses, and sociologically more pertinent to the forties than the sixties. Edwin Sherin's direction isn't much either, nor is the supporting cast--with the exception of Lou Gilbert as a much-tormented manager. At the ALVIN, W. 52nd...