Word: inner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rings of concentric circles characterize Pepper's work. The artist likes to break up these circles with contrasting linear shapes that balance precariously in space. She said that she tries to use this effect to reflect the delicate inner nature of an individual...
...Chou Yang, an orthodox party functionary. (Chou was eventually purged in the Cultural Revolution.) Chou and his coterie, Chiang Ch'ing recalled with great bitterness, kept her on the edges of the Communist organization during her four years in Shanghai. She never became a member of the secret inner-party circle. For a while the party placed her in a job as a night school instructor in a Y.W.C.A. literacy program. One night, however, a Nationalist informer apparently pointed her out to the police, who ordered her to leave Shanghai immediately. Witke describes her nocturnal flight from the city...
...success against the greatest adversities. This message, though hardly profound, becomes obscured by the sheer entertainment of the work. Rapid shifts from pathos to bathos allow the audience little opportunity to notice the underlying theme that unifies the play. Even a rather stirring finale fails to fully display the inner strength Roosevelt derived from his "bully" values, perhaps because those values seem somewhat outmoded and irrelevant today...
...also arguable whether Young will actually have much say in making U.S. policy decisions concerning southern Africa. Although much has been made of their mutual respect, no signs have appeared that Carter plans to include Young in his inner policymaking circle (beyond a special office and secretary Young has in the State Department building in Washington). Yet, even if he is denied the influence he now says he expects to have, Young possesses another trait, also honed during his years in the civil rights movement, that may prove to be significant...
Today, when housewives are asked what they do, they tend to answer diffidently "Nothing really" because they have been made to feel inferior and because the joys and challenges of domestic life are unorganized and unmeasured. Except for a philosopher or a poet, such inner rewards are hard to put into words, and therefore hard to preserve on a cold morning when the toast burns and the child is crying. For centuries, men have told their wives that such problems were not very important, but the novelty is to be patronized by other women for "not doing anything really." Kathy...