Word: awed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...skip and bounce relentlessly through their routines as if the relevant saint for them was St. Vitus. Not that any of these rolling pebbles bring any passion to the Passion, since what they want to elicit from the audience is a series of ahs rather than a sense of awe. Nor that New York, in Director David Greene's vision, looks like a city in need of salvation-which it surely...
...sometimes contradictory definitions of God, man and universe. The problem for Americans and others caught up in the West's renewed search for the sacred will be just how and where to strike a fruitful balance: between reason and imagination, between discipline and intuition, between a creative awe of the worlds man can only contemplate and a creative concern for the world he lives...
...must be taken as a philosophical statement; all the characters operate within clearly-defined boundaries, and we respond to them only as far as they fulfill the requirements of the whole. But when placed in the context of Bergman films, it is also a human document inspiring awe in the filmmaker's moral courage, and faith in his artistry...
...valuable to the student. Without them, the experience will probably be shallow and uninspiring however carefully the institution's goals are defined. For these reasons, I can argue for paying closer attention to our purposes while still emerging from my first year in office with a feeling of awe and respect for the richness of talent and activity that gives such value to a college education at Harvard
Their silly attempts to fix prices and wages (merely symptomatic treatment for inflation, at best) or to control them with noble-sounding voluntary guidelines will make good copy but, predictably, will fail as before. But we are to be awe-struck at the prestige that sponsors such efforts...