Word: inners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Inner Light. The meaning and power of Pendle Hill is not to be found primarily in its activities, but in the spirit that informs them. This spirit, unobtrusive but pervading, is Quakerism. Quakerism is neither Protestant nor Catholic, but a third type of Christianity in which rationalism and mysticism are at one. At the core of its practice is the belief in the Inner Light, or "that of God in every...
...great film is the acting of every one of its cast, principals or less, Jean-Louis Barrault turns in what is probably the great cinema performance of the decade as Baptiste. He is magnificent both as the frustrated dreamer of real life and as the master pantomimist whose inner thoughts are projected into his stage presentations...
...this question caused him inner perplexity, Douglas MacArthur gave no outward sign. A new advisory commission-known as the Deconcentration Review Board-had just arrived from Washington to study part of the question for him. Their indoctrination had begun at a lunch with MacArthur himself. Now they were being crammed with facts, figures and prophecies by SCAP's bright young men. Their job might keep them in Tokyo for months...
Diagnosis. The trouble, Cleveland holds, is that the leading organization of management itself lacks proper management. Policies are set not by the membership but by a "self-perpetuating ... inner circle" of boards and committees. From 1933 to 1946, reports Cleveland, "125 corporations have held 63% of all directorships, 88% of executive committee membership . . . and 52% of the major executive offices. This group constitutes approximately 0.8% of current membership and has never exceeded...
...novelist, Mrs. Fischer set out to study human lives during a period when not merely was an old order overthrown but several more were manufactured and destroyed. If she could have created the outer atmospheres and inner climates through which her characters are supposed to have lived, The Nazarovs would be a novel of great tragic force. But the job calls for more than the style of a competent linguist and the memory of a good reporter. What will impress the reader is not so much the novel that is there as the suggestion of the novel that might have...