Word: inners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with legislative committees, the academic community has, nevertheless, found new strength within its own bailiwick. The recent action of prominent professors, three of them from Harvard, in professionally boycotting the University of Washington, is an example of the power self-respecting professors still have to protect their freedom from inner attacks, which are far more insidious than Congressional investigations...
...their emancipation, thinks Anne Lindbergh, modern women have become bonded in a wider enslavement. Women ("the great vacationless class") simply must take time alone if they are to regain this "timeless inner strength" which "we [have] been seduced into abandoning . . . for the temporal outer strength of man. " As she picks up shell after shell during her seaside musings, Author Lindbergh seems to hear in them the murmur of delicate truths-the double-sunrise suggests the early stage of marriage; the oyster, with small shells clinging to its back, symbolizes the middle years of marriage, children, the home; the moon shell...
...plays is also partly one of production. Where Picnic so stressed theatrical values as to ossify human ones, Bus Stop, under Harold Clurman's understanding direction, seamlessly blends the two. Despite deeper entanglements, Picnic was all surfaced glare; Bus Stop, for all its outward humors, catches an inner glow...
...Using piano wire bought from a model-airplane shop, two U.C.L.A. surgeons have developed an operation for opening thigh arteries clogged by cholesterol in a common form of arteriosclerosis. A wire loop passed through a length of the artery strips out the inner wall with its fatty deposits...
...temper of religious faith is best measured against the pressures of human weakness. In The Power and the Glory Graham Greene gave a classic demonstration of the ordeal by inner torture that follows when a priest who is a weak man falls from grace. Now Ronald Hardy, a young (35) Englishman (and an Anglican) has written a first novel that establishes him as Greene's No. 1 disciple...