Word: inners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Within the guarded inner labyrinth of the Pentagon, five men sit at a brightly polished table in soundproofed Room 2C923. Around them the walls are covered with maps: a relief map of Europe, flat blue maps of the Pacific and the Atlantic, brown-and-gold maps of the land masses of Asia and Africa. Spotted strategically across the grey wall-to-wall carpeting are wastebaskets stenciled SECRET.* Four of the five men are doing most of the talking; the fifth is listening, chain-smoking Parliaments, working intricately filigreed doodles on a white notepad with the preoccupation...
First to be delicately unwrapped was the complication of Israel's troops in Egypt (see below). If this could be done, the next step was to get to the inner mechanism of trouble: the problem of the Suez and of the Soviet presence in Egypt. It was anxious work, and the ticking went on loud and clear...
Turning to the personality of the Ivy League man, he noted the "Inner Complacency which is common in the Ivy League," and a "uniformity of the sort that makes an Ivy League campus look as if its students had all gone to the same prep school at Conformity Corners...
...Communion. In Biblical times the Lord's Supper was interpreted as an act by which God shows that he reaches out to the community. Today it seems to be an act in which we draw together against fellow Christians and the world in a ceremony for an exclusive inner circle...
Realizing that at Harvard the competition for Phi Beta Kappa honors is heavier than at some other colleges, the Cambridge Chapter has increased its membership so that now ten per cent of each class is elected to the Society. An elite inner core has been maintained, however, by means of the three different stages at which one can be elected...