Word: inners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...danced in their vineyards on the Day of Atonement. The Greeks danced in honor of Apollo, of Pan, of Artemis, and in the ecstatic mysteries of Dionysus. In Islam, the Mevlevi dervishes still dance in patterns designed to expound cosmic laws as well as to achieve a state of inner peace...
...keys from easygoing, Arkansas-born Ed Stone, Hanisch made his way inside to an even bigger surprise. Instead of the confined central shaft that he had seen in the early plans, he found himself looking out over a spacious patio or Roman atrium, a sort of immense Pompeian inner court, to be used as a dining area, with three huge, gold-colored saucers overflowing with vines and ferns suspended at varying heights, and with mother-of-pearl light globes, which seemed to float, for illumination. It was a sight fit for a maharajah's eyes; said Industrialist Hanisch: "Tears...
...unusual practice; i.e., roads are used only by motorists and sidewalks only by pedestrians. But above and beyond this mutually exclusive assignment of territory, the captain in 50 days discovered an ethical explanation that had a genuine looking-glass tinge: "All this is done spontaneously, with an inner urge in every man and woman to obey traffic regulations and not because a policeman is there to book them...
...trips abroad, he was as folksy as an overweight Will Rogers, carefully avoided any association with the skulking, oldtime conspiratorial local Communists, managed to suggest that Communist parties are as respectable as Christian Democrats or Tories. After destalinization, Italy's Communist party lost 250,000 members and its inner discipline. Last week three of five party members attended their cell meetings?reportedly the highest proportion since...
...through the verbal fog banks. Readers who get as far as page 673 will sharply question Lerner's assertion that the U.S. is in a "moral interregnum," distrusting the old gods and uncertainly waiting for new ones, and that (page 947) America is on a descending arc of "inner social and moral vigor." But on the whole, Author Lerner strains so conscientiously to be judicious that he balances every neither with a nor. Sample: "American capitalism has been both overpraised and overindicted. . .it is neither the Plumed Knight nor the monstrous Robber Barony." Pursued relentlessly, this mode of thought...