Word: awed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...church, cardinals are, as they should be, men of awe, whom Pope John last year compared to the marvelous wheels in the sky seen by the prophet Ezekiel. The Princes of the Church, he said, are men who "move around the throne of the most highest, who have no concern except for his glory, except to carry forward his fiery chariot, who when they touch the earth transform it with the ardor of their charity...
...when Jackie discovered that her sister, Lee Radziwill, who was traveling with her, had fallen behind and missed the show. Sailing down the Ganges River on a marigold-decorated boat, Jackie inspected the burning and bathing ghats along the shore. In Agra she was "overwhelmed by a sense of awe" at the sight of the shimmering Taj Mahal in sun and moonlight. "I have seen pictures of the Taj," she said, "but for the first time I am struck with a sense of its mass and symmetry." The Indians, who crowded in everywhere for a glimpse of her, were also...
Gideon, by Paddy Chayefsky, treats God and man as humorous and crotchety back-fence neighbors, but the formidable acting gifts of Fredric March and Douglas Campbell strike occasional sparks of awe...
...raises the serious matter of general scientific ignorance. People have learned to accept science as a source of endless improvement, material comfort, and abundance, yet most the exact workings of science are mysterious. "Ironically, science itself seems to have fallen heir to much of what remains of the frightened awe formerly accorded to the outer darkness...
Gideon, by Paddy Chayefsky, treats the relationship of God and man with more humor than awe, but the superb acting ability of Fredric March and Douglas Campbell supplies the necessary power and the glory...