Word: awed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Some of the whispering has died away as Horowitz has settled down. He married Grodzins two years ago, and she says that since he got tenure this year, fewer people pull her aside to murmur their awe. Horowitz generates less commotion just because he will probably be around Harvard for a long time...
...their various lengths and styles, these vastly expensive monuments to man's ingenuity and perseverance combine the most basic usefulness with a beauty that commuters have long since taken for granted. Photographer David Plowden provides the pictures and historical text that should restore the balance of awe and respect due these structures...
...facile and temporary they may be. For the first time in years, Bergman is dealing with the specifics of modern society. When love breaks down the modern institutions are the primary cause; the incorporeal concerns Bergman can usually convey are absent. So this film brings forward no sense of awe. The spiritual sense is cut out from underneath--what's left are the rocky, excessive emotions bred by the petty, inchoate sexual relations of a sexually and politically unequal society. Bergman has never isolated these passions before. For the past two decades the characters in his movies have been searching...
Raspberry seems to underestimate the awe with which Americans tend to treat the subject of death, as well as their capacity to drop grudges at the grave side. He raises an interesting question about whether the Ford White House has considered the nature of a possible Nixon funeral. But it is hardly a query crying out for an answer. What does need answering, in journalistic terms, is why Raspberry-and the editors who published his column-displayed such poor taste in speculating on the funeral of someone seriously...
...reading Traveler Looking over the Sea of Fog (circa 1818) as a real scene; with his wind-blown hair and green velvet suit, Friedrich's Byronic wanderer is as incongruous on his craggy perch as a Magritte businessman. He is, instead, that convention of a Friedrich landscape, the awe-struck witness...