Word: inners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night he outsmarts himself, wins too spectacularly, and the poolroom toughs take him to the privy and break his thumbs. His comeback is slow. At the end he has regained his skill and has also learned that skill is not enough, that in the clutches a man's inner resources may be more important than a missed shot...
...this, as President Eisenhower, Vice President Nixon and others in the Administration high command are telling the inner councils, is not enough. To win this battle, Nixon told a TIME correspondent last week, the U.S. must move ahead-in stepped-up people-to-people exchanges; in training technicians, administrators, businessmen to serve overseas; in meeting and debating with Communists and neutralists in world labor unions, student organizations; in finding better ways of bolstering the cause of freedom behind the Iron Curtain...
...Spartan Left Bank office on the Rue de Solferino. And because he remained for many Frenchmen a kind of father figure, men of every political current called to confide in him. Without ever soliciting information, De Gaulle became perhaps the best-informed man in France on the inner workings and gaping inadequacies of the Fourth Republic...
Sadly enough, many of Giotto's paintings have been lost or mutilated. Some have been plastered over; others "improved" by latter-day restorers. But last week a few were being rediscovered in Florence. An inner wall of the Badia church had been chipped away to reveal traces of a Giotto Annunciation mentioned by Vasari. At the Santa Croce, centuries of overpainting have been successfully peeled away from Giotto's still astonishingly fresh depictions of the lives of Saint Francis of Assisi, John the Baptist and John the Apostle. On another wall, plaster was painstakingly peeled away to reveal...
...misery of the world by taking the guilt upon ourselves, as Job attempted to take it: 'Show me my guilt, O God.' We even listen, as Job did, to the Comforters. [But where] Job's Comforters undertook to persuade him, against the evidence of his own inner conviction, that he was guilty, ours attempt to persuade us that we are not-that we cannot be-that, for psychological reasons, or because everything is determined in advance by economic necessity anyway, or because we were damned before we started, guilt is impossible. Our Comforters are, if anything, less...