Word: inner
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Instead, landfills distant from the inner cities have become the chief refuge for our refuse...
...Mormon history the year 1844 is decisive killed in Illinois, and his disciples were plunged into turmoil. After months of arguing, Brigham Young convinced a majority of the flock it was Smith's will to give control to an inner council called the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. As its head, Young succeeded Smith as Prophet. Ever since, the presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has passed to the senior Quorum member...
...conference in Berlin in 1954, France's Foreign Minister Georges Bidault was hailed as "that fine little French tiger, Georges Bidet," thus belittling the tiger by the tail. When we laugh at such stuff, it is the harsh and bitter laugh, the laugh at the disclosure of inner condemning truth...
...there is also a more kindly laugh that occurs when a blunderer does not reveal his worst inner thoughts, but his most charitable or optimistic. Gerald Ford's famous error in the 1976 presidential debate, in which he said that Poland was not under Soviet domination, for instance. In a way, that turned out to contain a grain of truth, thanks to Lech Walesa and the strikes; in any case it was a nice thing to wish. As was U.N. Ambassador Warren Austin's suggestion in 1948 that Jews and Arabs resolve their differences "in a true Christian...
This daydreamy commitment to an inner world is always central, often to the complete exclusion of anything approaching reality. It is fiction in the high visionary mode, and throughout the book Helprin gives us a world in which characters are only saved by their compelling beautiful visions...