Word: awed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...promoted by Radcliffe is a dreadful illusion, and one which if taken seriously can keep us not only from developing our own possibilities, but from relating to other women. The contempt and mistrust women have for each other, even when they are "friends," is the counterpart of the excessive awe we feel towards men, and part of what makes us sense that we would be utterly desolate without a man in our lives...
...Lawrence Lowell, her immediate answer became a legend. "The president," she said, "has gone to Washington to call on Mr. Taft." Many Harvard presidents have earned such awe. Of the four men who have ruled Harvard since 1869, three were giants among educators -Lowell, Charles W. Eliot and James...
Died. James Pringle, 51, veteran Associated Press war photographer; of cancer; in Rome. Pringle covered the Blitz, the Allies' advance across Europe, the Korean War, the Hungarian and Algerian Revolutions, winning his colleagues' esteem for his craftsmanship and their awe for his Irish fearlessness in the face of fire. "Why, they can't hit me," he once said as bullets buzzed overhead. "After all, I carry an Irish passport...
Only last year, Penn's swimming team was about as awe-inspiring as Brown's football team or breakfast in the Union. The Quakers were consistent shoe-ins to share last place in the EISL with Columbia...
...should all have guessed what was happening when Abbey Road and the Get Back tapes showed that they just weren't working too hard anymore together. You have to work in rock and roll. The Stones work. You saw the amused awe Godard felt at the intensity and seriousness of the Stones in a recording studio...