Word: awed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drawings in Paris, a show of lithographs in Holland. France's Musée des Arts Décoratifs is planning a major retrospective, and a gallery in the West German city of Hannover has just opened a display of 88 works that left visitors wavering between awe and revulsion. In Manhattan, World House Galleries was holding a Dubuffet retrospective of its own-a modest (41 works) but well-selected sampling of a strange career...
Despite the squabbles, most Hawaiians look on Kaiser with the same mixture of awe, fascination and affection that they accord their smoldering volcanoes. His capacity for work is enormous. He is up before 5 a.m., begins inspecting his projects almost immediately, keeps an active hand in his widespread interests by daily telephone calls to the U.S., where his son Edgar has taken over the main direction of the Kaiser empire. He is putting the finishing touches on a $1,000,000 house for himself on Maunalua Bay. It has a YMCA-size swimming pool, a restaurant-size kitchen, built...
...expects to add three new campuses and to educate 118,900 students. To do this, it must spend $700 million to build three times as much physical plant in the next 15 years as it has in the last 90. With awe, Harvard's President Nathan M. Pusey calls Kerr's job "one of the most difficult and exacting posts in the whole history of higher education...
...without being slightly skeptical of the figures quoted or the descriptions of the crowd enthusiasm. Yet on Thursday, September 29, a large number of the members of the Students for Nixon-Lodge found themselves squarely in the middle of certainly one of the most tumultuous, (at least, pulse- and awe inspiring) greetings ever accorded any candidate in the seemingly reserved...
...doing things. Some are as simple and gadgety as the self-shaking mop; some are as complicated as the sealed-window, almost dust-free house. Some are as frivolous as a musical toothbrush that sounds a sour note when the teeth are not brushed correctly; some are as awe-inspiring as the purposeful arc of Echo threading its way through the stars. For the housewife, the worker on the production line, and the executive in his office, the outpouring of new inventions has provided more time to pursue dozens of new interests at leisure-and a choice of hundreds more...