Word: awestruck
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...wild fanaticism with which we pursued these academic giants wore off in a few days, after realizing that they were not made of kryptonite. Instead, they were real people, as awestruck and mystified as we were by the grandeur and history that constantly surrounded...
Dove wants to re-create for the young her own awestruck discovery of poetry's power, which began when she took down an anthology of American verse from the bookshelf in her family's home in Akron. After that, her otherwise strict parents made no attempt to censor what she read, and she read everything from Gone With the Wind to Sylvia Plath. "I remember reading ((Plath's)) poem Daddy, which ends, 'Daddy, Daddy, you bastard, I'm through,' " says Dove. "I realized that you don't have to be polite in poetry, and I couldn't get enough...
...grimace of determination on his face. A letter he wrote to his uncle when he was 12 explaining why he lost a nine- hole Jaycee golf tournament ("A 14-year-old kid who shot a 49 he ((sic)) beat me on the 17th"). A photo of an awestruck Dan as a college student shaking hands with Ronald Reagan (not unlike the now famous picture of earnest young Bill Clinton shaking hands with J.F.K...
...Clinton seems particularly awestruck. It is as if he's convinced that he's finally made it to the big time and wants to milk it for all its worth. There's something disconcerting about seeing the country's highest elected leader--the world's most powerful man--schmoozing with actors whose main qualification is their looks...
...time for Clinton to look a little bit less like an awestruck boy from Arkansas, and a little more like a president. He can start by asking Hollywood's elite to do something to help the country, something much more substantive than making speeches at the Oscars or wearing bejeweled AIDS ribbons. And he won't have to look very...