Word: awed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After the first few class meetings of fiction I feared that my unknown abilities would stand in the shadows of the deservedly more recognized students whose first papers imparted a slight sense of awe to the entire class. But something turned around after those first few weeks, something I would have to attribute to Diana Thomson's warmth and encouragement as a friend as well as a teacher. My papers started to reflect me as a person and as a writer and I sensed a great deal more feeling and confidence with what I was doing in fiction. I gained...
...hand, I hold Eistein in awe and respect. On the other, I have a sense of pity for this humanist and pacifist, who through his quest for understanding the natural universe has locked into place a chain of events that perhaps will dehumanize or destroy...
...generation later, the awe has turned into fear. Studies now show that an unusually high number of those Utah youngsters exposed to nuclear fallout eventually died of leukemia. Similarly, there are indications of a high cancer rate among military personnel who observed the tests at close range. At the same time, other investigations are finding high incidences of cancer among the workers who overhaul nuclear submarines at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Me. This evidence raises anew one of the most difficult questions of the nuclear age: What is the minimum threshold at which even seemingly low levels...
...mood, with an opening backdrop of the Manhattan skyline that is like a bas-relief of tinseled Christmas trees. A top-name pop composer. Vernon Gersch (Robert Klein), surveys the scene from his luxury apartment where he first meets Sonia Walsk (Lucie Arnaz), an aspiring lyricist much in awe of his success. When she picks up his solid-gold Oscar, she is astonished: "They're lighter than I thought!" Quips Vernon: "They're chocolate inside...
...coldly dismissed an Assistant Secretary, a man whom he had talked into coming from California to join him, with barely a word. Stories about his superiority complex are numerous. "I saw him melt the stars off a four-star general, one at a time," remembers an aide with awe. The aide recalls something else: a Schlesinger mean streak that sometimes puts people into paralysis. One night a Schlesinger bodyguard noticed as he drove his boss to a formal dinner party that the Secretary had forgotten to put on his black bow tie. Even as Schlesinger walked in the door...