Word: deepest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wrongly," he writes, "I imagine that I know a human being from his or her musical performance. Performing, an artist lays himself bare, he exposes the secret temperament, the hidden motive, he risks the psychological revelation." Particularly for a master of the most exquisitely expressive of instruments, the deepest unfolding of self is the music. Of that continuing intimacy, "Unfinished Journey" is a gentle elucidation...
...many, such explanations of noble deeds are cold comfort. But Harvard Anthropologist Melvin J. Konner sees a bright side to reciprocal altruism. Sociobiologists, he says, "have in fact uplifted [human nature] by showing that altruism, long thought to be a thin cultural veneer, belongs instead to the deepest part of our being, produced by countless aeons of consistent evolution...
...biological tendency to distrust strangers and prefer the company of individuals who look like ourselves. Says Wilson: "We are likely to see some of our most exalted feelings explained in terms of traits which evolved. We may find that there is an overestimation of the nature of our deepest yearnings...
...message is clear: the aging Kremlin leadership is not prepared to relinquish its influence over the Communist parties in the West, however successful the tactics of those avowedly independent Marxists may be (see following story). But Moscow's deepest concern is probably the possible reverberations that Eurocommunism, if allowed to develop unchecked, might have among the captive regimes of Eastern Europe. If seductive ideas about an independent Communism were allowed to take root there, they would not only threaten Moscow's determination to maintain itself as the Rome of international Communism. They would also threaten the East-West...
Both try to protect what is left of their private lives. "One of the most ridiculous aspects of modern society," says Powell, "is the idea that everybody ought to inflict his deepest personal problems on everybody else. I think most people would be happier if they kept more to themselves." Once known as cutups who could down beers with the best of 'em, Jordan and Powell have become homebodies, of necessity. There is little time for cavorting. Though the two are thrown together regularly in the White House and on the tennis courts, they rarely see one another after...