Word: inners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enlargement of scientific knowledge and understanding about the inner workings of man himself...
...Walker's story on the inner turmoils of a mid-western freshman is obviously as sincere as anything in the issue, but it fails because his narration seems affected. Marie Winn's "Day of Wrath" is one of a current genre of back woods revival stories. Although her approach is not original, she does succeed in infuriating the reader by obscuring the action, meanwhile saying that she at least knows what is happening. Faulty narration can be employed with good effect is psychological writing, but Miss Winn only leaves one wondering if she herself has a clear idea of what...
...University group hopes to determine whether the light of the sun's inner corona, a glowing gaseous envelope surrounding the sun, is white or slightly colored. "Previous observations have shown no trace of color, but they have at best been only accurate to within 10 percent," said Sinton. "We hope, with luck, to reduce the margin of error to one percent," he added...
Chekhov put himself through medical school, but he was a doctor only by chance and a writing man out of inner necessity. Before he was 30 he had churned out some 400 stories, sketches and one-act plays, and the first version of Uncle Vanya. He believed that a writer had to be an irritated oyster before he would produce any pearls: "He who doesn't desire anything, doesn't hope for anything and isn't afraid of anything cannot be an artist." Damning his own as a literary generation of "lemonade" dispensers, Chekhov makes a telling...
...Countess, Katharine Cornell can well be described as wonderful. Filled with charm and kindness, her performance at the same time reveals the inner strength of the woman she portrays. Her reading of Fry's complicated sentences is clear enough to reach even the hidden recesses of the second balcony, but it somehow never sounds declamatory or too loud. Miss Cornell's presence on the stage is so overwhelming, in fact, that the other actors sometimes succumb to the temptation to shout in order to make an equal impact on the audience. This defect is most noticeable in the performance...