Word: inners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...graceful glass and marble palace by New York's East River, the ninth U.N. General Assembly opened last week with outward smoothness and inner doubts. Only one Big Four Foreign Minister, John Foster Dulles of the U.S., was on hand, and many delegates muttered that the U.N. was being bypassed, that the major decisions were all being made outside, at Geneva and in the private councils of the big powers...
...concern, and from within through lack of feeling. The play might almost be called Tea and Apathy. For, what with its sensitive boy-stupidly misunderstood, innocently misunderstanding-and with its unhappy brother in the same ministering-angel role as the housemaster's unhappy wife, there are decided inner correspondences with Tea and Sympathy. But where, in Tea and Sympathy, a bewildered boy was caught up violently in action, it is of inaction that he is the victim here. And deprived of melodrama, Playwright Anderson is driven into sentimentality. One of the things that Willie (engagingly played by Clay Hall...
...Roads to Freedom. Where does all this leave Riesman's earnest reader? If the reader recoils from the other-directed man and cannot go back to inner-direction, where can he turn in search of morality and freedom in personal life or in politics...
Riesman believes that in each of the three historical kinds of character direction, some men will adjust, some will fail to adjust and some will rise above adjustments. Those who fail he calls anomic (ruleless, directionless); the years of transition between two kinds of direction (inner and other) will produce many anomics. Those who transcend adjustment he calls autonomous. Their social radar is good and they use it when they choose; but they can turn it off and develop the ability to make choices out of their own individuality...
...last week played a parody of democracy. The occasion: the First National People's Congress, convened to "ratify" a 106-article constitution for Red China and then "elect" a chairman and vice chairman. From all over vast Communist China's 25 provinces, from far-off Tibet and Inner Mongolia, came 1,141 delegates, striding up steps of gleaming marble, past newly painted red pillars and into Peking's ancient Cherish Benevolence Hall...