Word: beholding
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...When I behold your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars which you set in place?
...clever ones call it "instant nostalgia," but others insist that it's just junk. The quest for the artifacts of yesteryear, which has been indulged in by many Americans for years, has now reached epidemic proportions. Behold! A hot-air grate, raised on a walnut stand, becomes "sculpture." A chamber pot leaves its place under the bed and appears-lo!-as a soup tureen. Fortunate is the man who inherits a 1912 Corona typewriter or an Atwater-Kent radio in plywood Gothic style. They are also lucky who have-squirreled away somewhere-cast-iron toys, lead molds, bubble...
...Henry Thoreau's grandfather, Asa Dunbar, who set the pattern for American student rebellions over 200 years ago. As the Mario Savio of 1766, he was protesting against the poor quality of Harvard College chow. His slogan: "Behold our Butter stinketh...
Shall I ever, oh ever, behold thy behind...
...Bambi and Sleeping Beauty and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Disney always managed to squeeze out all the incongruities, anything that he could not understand. Then, distilled, it would be fed into the machine that made Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck and their gloves--and, behold, the result is a product, as nourishing as frozen corn...