Word: awed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...death may come from China's younger generation, which has never known another leader or system or experienced the turmoil and deprivation endured by Chinese in the era of imperialism and during the socialist revolutions--the same generation that, in other nations, has often stood in awe of Mao Tse-tung...
...York, Staff Writer Richard Bernstein prepared to write his sixth cover story on China. Bernstein speaks Mandarin, studied Chinese culture at Harvard, and has visited the People's Republic. After learning of Mao's death, he said, "I felt a sense of awe as well as a sense of relief. The event the Chinese have been afraid of and have been preparing for has finally occurred. If there is ever going to be a crisis, it will be as a result of this...
There were only fitful flights of mischief (Baio and Cassisi broke a fire-alarm box that had steel emergency doors slamming shut all over their hotel). The kids responded to Parker as if he were a benevolent older brother but stood just a little in awe of Jodie Foster. At 13, and after ten full-fledged roles in features as diverse as Tom Sawyer and Taxi Driver, Foster (TIME, Feb. 23) was the savviest pro around and regarded herself as such. "I never think of myself as a child actress," Foster says. "Only as an actress...
...arrogant newness so captivated poets like Guillaume Apollinaire, Filippo Marinetti and Blaise Cendrars, or painters like Fernand Léger, Francis Picabia -and Delaunay. The machine culture extolled by these early modernists of the Belle Epoque is our own archaeology, but we cannot revive the mixture of innocent awe and millenarian hope with which they confronted it. Like the faith that raised Chartres, that has gone...
...drowning. ABC's Jim McKay, offering television's best-turned phrase of the week, described her as "swimming in an ocean of air." Reassured by Nadia's self-confidence, the sellout crowds (scalpers got $200 for $16 tickets) gasped not in apprehension but with delight and awe. Indeed, Nadia seemed as at home on the balance beam as Br'er Rabbit was in the brier patch-hopping about as if she were born there...