Word: innermost
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...very fact that so many people are eager to talk about their innermost feelings with a total stranger for the purpose of publication points up one of society's shortcomings: no one listens. Denes is at least willing to do this much...
...Faculty's other associate dean in academic matters, Francis M. Pipkin, although a friend of Rosovsky's, is clearly not a member of his innermost administrative circles. As head of the CHUL, Pipkin presided over that body's waffling and disagreement, never giving much leadership. He concluded his tenure by giving the unwanted chairmanship back to Rosovsky. On other matters, his record is similarly ambiguous--his work in the tightening of honors standards was foremost, but every amendment he produced to plug the original legislative holes seemed to open several new ones...
...enter our Bicentennial year confused, properly humbled, but not necessarily despondent. The conditions of life in the innermost parts of many of our older cities have become, in Thomas Hobbes' phrase, "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." The near collapse of family structure and communal life in these areas has created, for tens of thousands of people, especially young ones, a social catastrophe that the conventional institutions of a free society are, in the short run, powerless to correct. But for different people and at different times, much the same thing happened: in the cities of the 1830s...
...conservations in which he told all about his deepest inner feelings. In a series of heart-to-heart talks in which he would climb into her bed early in the morning (she had gotten out of bed before he got in, by the way), the old man revealed his innermost secret: he loved his mother...
SOME NOVELISTS MAKE you feel like you're looking into a mirror. The shock of coming upon one of your innermost thoughts, perfectly expressed, is both thrilling and unsettling--it's like someone is reading your mind. For the past ten years, devoted followers have been finding their thoughts reflected back at them in the characters of British novelist Margaret Drabble. The heroines have been distinctly individual women in varying situations, yet they have never failed to spark at least a flicker of recognition...