Word: awed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thank you for the wonderful reproductions in your Nov. 24 issue, particularly for that glorious and luminous cover. I often wonder what some of today's modern artists (drip, slop and hoodwink schools) feel when they look at masterpieces such as these. Awe? Envy? Shame...
...winter track team is one with several awe-inspiring performers. There are, for example, mighty Ted Bailey, the 62-ft. weight thrower, and massive Rick Mullin, the 4:18.1 miler, and springy-legged Marty Beckwith, the 6 ft., 6 in, high jumper; doughty Don Kirkland, the 1:12.7 600 man, and determined Eddie Meehan, a star in anything from the 600 to the two-mile...
When the formidable Augustus John displayed an accumulation of his paintings, as he did every decade or so in London, the occasion was apt to follow a rigid ritual. The critics would arrive, admire the deft draftsmanship, and report in awe that though John did not change, he never seemed to date. Then would come John's friends-poets, artists, actors, M.P.s, and a generous sampling of the House of Lords-chatting and advising. Finally, John himself, bearded and majestic, would sweep in, his headgear-whether a beret or black Homburg or battered trilby-cocked at some outlandish angle...
...Loeb is to be used in can no longer be worshipped. Harvard drama must lose its awe of the Loeb's physical facilities and its accompanying fear of using them to produce anything amateurish. It costs several hundred dollars a day just to keep the Loeb open. It is about time that Harvard got its money's worth...
...Awed Wobbler. His interest in music started early (piano) and continued through the rest of Mencken's life; once a week he played with the Saturday Night Club, a group of Baltimore amateurs and professionals who met to drink beer and wobble through everything from Funiculi, Funiculo to the Brahms Second Symphony. Mencken's writings on music, which appeared in his newspaper columns and in the two magazines he edited (Smart Set and American Mercury), show neither the musical erudition of Britain's Ernest Newman nor the impeccable taste of that other musical iconoclast, George Bernard Shaw...