Word: raptness
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Slowly the young woman takes the hand; her serious eyes flicker. She steps into the ceric, womblike cavern, her expression rapt, her hand trembling with the match she holds. Her voice, her own breathing, echoes maddeningly in the cave's depths. Around her, she senses the force of the limitless universe, a power that is oppressive yet seductive--the spirit of "the real India...
...church a few blocks away from Beatty's jury-rigged attic office in Easton's Tidewater Inn, some of the nation's finest decoy makers were explaining their techniques to a rapt audience. "Think egg, think oval, think round, think pleasant," said Tan Brunet, a championship carver from Galliano, La. "A bird has no corners." As he talked, a neighbor, Jimmie Vizier, another prizewinning carver, addressed a block of tupelo. Shavings flew. Brunet chalked a map of the United States on a blackboard, understandably skewing the southern dip of Louisiana so that it was more prominent than...
...admirably varied theater of land work, from haymakers to grooms, trainers and jockeys, without the least sign of overt condescension. Across the Channel, patrons liked pictures of drunken, vomiting peasants in the Dutch manner: a class zoo. Not in England, where Stubbs painted the cult of the horse with rapt attention, as a ritual focus of many skills and several mutually dependent classes...
These sketches, with their explosive message and rapt audience involvement, are part of a drama unfolding in classrooms all across the country. Impelled by a rising national concern over child sex abuse, thousands of schools have taken up the touchy business of telling kids what it is all about and how to confront it. More than 50,000 children in Ohio and 80,000 in California have watched or played in the Uncle Harry show. The State of California, shocked by the arraignment of seven people from the McMartin School in Manhattan Beach on 208 counts of child molesting...
Hansen read a letter from a missionary friend in Nicaragua to an audience sitting in rapt silence. The letter told stories of the destruction and killing caused by the Nicaraguan contras who are supported by the U.S. government...