Word: beholding
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...Behold my Lear," proclaimed Shaw, with his usual modesty, of this melancholy farce. Not for him the inevitable comparisons with Chekhov and Congreve. No, he would recast Lear as Captain Shotover, a wily old man of the sea, sensitive to every political current, each distant drumroll of thunder on the cloudless eve of the Great War. Surrounding the Captain are his two bewitching daughters, with their foolish suitors, and one young woman, Ellie Dunn, who is wise and innocent enough to read the Captain's prophetic mind. In Shaw's Lear, Cordelia has a divine madness...
...Behold, what fullback through yonder defense breaks? It is Steve Ernst, and Harvard is the sun. Yet, see, the Crimson doth itself appear, as doth the blushing discontented sun from out the fiery portal of the Ivy League, when it perceives the envious Crusaders are bent to dim its glory and to stain the record of its bright passage through the 1983 schedule...
...Lord, our Heavenly Father, the high and mighty ruler of the Universe, Who dost from Thy throne behold all the dwellers upon earth; most heartily we beseech Thee, with Thy favor to behold and bless Thy servant, Franklin, chosen to be the President of the United States...
...power of celebrity in the modern age is sometimes astonishing to behold. But miraculous? In Europe rumors have circulated that a devout tourist had her prayers answered last spring and a doctor recorded the inexplicable recovery of a patient; both attributed the developments to the intervention of Princess Grace of Monaco. So now a handful of the Roman Catholic faithful are proposing Grace for beatification, a step along the road to sainthood. Committees to aid the cause are forming in Italy and reportedly in Philadelphia, her home town, and Hollywood as well. During a memorial service for the Princess...
...play is the teen-age Eugene, portrayed with winning deadpan guile by Matthew Broderick. He acts as narrator, a kind of perky tourist guide to darkest Depression Brooklyn. He is possessed by two maddeningly tantalizing desires: to play for the New York Yankees and to behold a naked woman while eating an ice cream cone...