Word: inners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with all the bank employes accounted for, the bandits entered, herded eleven people into a 6 by 5 ft. vault, whose inner gate they locked with a chain and padlock foresightedly brought for the purpose. "Thank God they didn't close the vault doors," said one prisoner. The head teller collapsed in a faint and the others kept quiet. "I hugged the wall," said one later. "I wasn't going to get fresh." The hold-up men had eight minutes before opening time, and that was enough. By 9 a.m. the three bandits were quietly driving away with...
...traumatic spiritual experience, like Paul's blinding light on the Damascus road. A sense of vocation for the religious life is the insistent conviction that the decision represents God's will, not one's own. Many of the most successful religious have struggled against this inner prompting at first, only to capitulate...
attempts at inner control have multiplied in recent years, especially in state-controlled institutions. The University of California, for example, has a "contact man" between its administrators and the California Senate Committee on Un-American Activities. His job: to investigate the activities of faculty members. A state policeman in Michigan University regularly attends undergraduate political meetings and checks the authors of all controversial letters appearing in the Daily. In February, the University of Washington's President Schlitz turned down a request from its Department of Physics to invite J. Robert Oppenheimer for three months of lectures...
...Manhattan, TV soap operas carried an even greater load of grief than usual as leading characters on Brighter Days, First Love, Golden Windows and The Inner Flame were either accused of or confessed to murder...
...rehearsals went on, it was soon clear that members of the cast were gaining inner satisfaction from watching Captain Queeg, the man in position of responsibility and trust, break down under stress. As Psychiatrist Edward R. Miller explains it, this helped many patients to feel that "it could happen to anyone"-so they felt less different themselves. Also, they enjoyed the humbling of a "father-figure," for many had troubles that traced back to their own fathers or other authoritarian figures. Best of all, characters in the play were able to act out their hostility to Father-Figure Queeg without...