Word: inner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lately there has been much grim news out of Great Britain. The highest unemployment figures (around 12%) since the Depression, all-out street fighting in the inner cities. Suddenly, within and without, everyone needed reminding: not only of past glories but of future possibilities. And what better reminder than a wedding-showmanship and statesmanship in high style? The whole country is invited; the world can look on. The monarchy is seen, resplendent, as what the British have long insisted that it has become: an extended, and exalted, surrogate family. "The royal scene is simply a presentation of ourselves behaving well...
Satyagraha is certainly appealing, indeed beautiful. The score glows with a spiritual luminosity rarely encountered in this secular, anxious age, and its inner peace harmonizes with the tenets of the Bhagavad-Gita being sung and the goals of Gandhi's revolution acted out onstage. The opera's three acts (seven scenes) trace the beginnings of the Satyagraha movement during Gandhi's 21 years in South Africa: the founding of the Tolstoy Farm commune, the increasing resistance to discrimination against Indians, the climactic Newcastle march of 1913 in which Gandhi led striking miners in protest against restrictive racial...
...lifts off majestically at the upward wave of the storyteller's hand, the audience lifts off too, out the window of the Opera House, above the sun-dappled boats lying at anchor in Rockport harbor, beyond time, beyond space. Somewhere off in a primeval woods everybody's inner ear hears a sneaky, undeserving little hitchhiker of a thrush trill the loveliest of songs...
...corpse in their backyard. At night Darby wanders through rock halls as the more engaged members of the audience pogo to the music and slam into each other with the force of bumper cars. Darby doesn't dance much; he simply staggers forward, backward, attentive to some inner music, like the dying of his brain cells. Within the year, the rest of him will be dead, of overdose and ennui...
...Three Chicago-area researchers surveyed 1,331 adolescents, the majority in the Midwest, during the early 1960s and another group of 1,385 in the late 1970s and in 1980. Those in the first group were more confident and trusting, felt greater affection for their families and mastered "their inner feelings and impulses" better. The '70s teen-agers were less secure, had more problems and more worries about their bodies, described themselves as more easily hurt than the earlier group, and had lower ethical standards. "Over approximately an 18-year period," say Psychiatrist Daniel Offer and Psychologists Eric Ostrov...