Word: inner
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...decentralized administration made up of experts who independently rule. That structure on the whole seems to have worked remarkably well during Bok's 11 years. Certainly it has eased the fortress mentality that prevailed beore 1971. Bok's predecessor, Nathan M. Pusey '28, relied exclusively on a tiny inner circle of all-purpose advisors and was widely blamed for mismanaging events such as the student protests of the late 1960s...
...even if Harvard could somehow control everything that occurs on campus, and turn the College into an integrated paradise, there is little the University can do to enlighten some parts of Boston. When minority recruiters go out to inner city high schools and urge promising students to apply to Harvard, racial tensions in the city of Boston are high on the list of potential applicants' worries. Just this summer, in a well-publicized incident, a Black couple and their two small children were attacked while their car was stopped at a red light by young whites shouting racial epithets. Until...
...years as a prison chaplain, I have encountered a number of Sy Johnsons who feel they are chronic victims, abused and misused. One of the alienating choices the Sy Johnsons repeatedly make is to sustain themselves with anger, bitterness and inner turmoil. In their distorted view, these intense and destructive emotions are the glue that holds their fragmented lives together. Such individuals are totally threatened, even panicked, at the suggestion of giving up their anger...
Jerry Falwell of the Moral Majority lied in Alaska by claiming that he met with me in the Oval Office and that I told him I had to have homosexuals on my staff because there were homosexuals in the U.S. who needed representation in my inner circle. I have never had a private meeting with him. He has never been in the Oval Office. I have never had any such conversation...
...Boston-area instructors lead the new Won Wa Do group, which meets weekly. The discipline combines the physical training typical of the self defense-oriented martial arts with an emphasis on "inner meditation...