Word: awed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many, Houses provide the College with one of the only mechanisms available for efficiently reducing the overwhelming impersonality which could easily dominate an institution of this size. Administrative changes in Housing policy have been directed toward giving the Houses more autonomy, and making them something to be held in awe by freshmen, and accepted by upperclassmen
...photograph of Gelsey Kirkland lumbering up epitomizes the ambivalence inherent in Kirkland's ballet of perfection: it is at once artistically awe-inspiring and physically grotesque. The flesh is mortified, and the world is enriched...
...enjoy the scenery. He does show potential in his final soliloquy, as well as in the last moments of the play when he risks his health by falling several feet from a platform, blood dripping from numerous bodily wounds, contemplating the certainty of death with a believable look of awe, ecstasy and agony...
...finest in the league's history. Greg Makowski, 21, is a rugged fullback for the Caribous, and Billy Gazonas is a fleet, slick and tiny (5 ft. 5 in., 135 lbs.) playmaker at midfield for the Tulsa Roughnecks. The new American kids do not stand in awe of most of the Europeans. Says 20-year-old Gary Etherington, a Cosmos forward: "I don't see that much difference between us and them, except for the big stars." And Big Star Chinaglia is a fan of the young Americans: "They improve every year...
...when the final arguments had been heard and the lobbying had ceased, all of the Senators were swept up by the same realization. Says MacNeil: "The mood in the great hall as the roll was called was one of awe. Rarely is a vote so important that those present fall into such a silence, and there has not been one in Congress like this since the House Judiciary Committee, in a similar hush, voted the first article of impeachment against Richard Nixon...