Word: inners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story is told by Mary in an inner monologue. Everyone is solicitous of her health ("You can catch your death this weather"), but death is so close and horrifying that she cries: "I am too afraid to be sorry ... I want to be brave but I cannot." Feeling like an animal because she is always watched, Mary knows only two inescapable realities: prison and fear. Gradually her fear mounts to hysteria. She loses all control, screams in her sleep, abandons even vanity. Using lipstick would be indecent now, she thinks, "like painting the face of a corpse...
Tennant snapped: "I'm sick and tired of being followed!" A news blackout followed. Across the moat of privacy, reporters had Slim pickings: The only tidings that drifted out from the inner sanctum: a picnic had been called off because of rain-and U.S. Crooner Eddie Fisher had sent the princess a special recording of Happy Birthday...
...U.C.L.A.) studied cancer patients to find out what sort of psychological makeup they had before they developed the disease. They soon found that the average victim of breast or prostate cancer was unable to express such basic drives as anger, aggressiveness, or sexual impulses, suffered from an inner turmoil "covered over by a façade of pleasantness...
Concluded the U.C.L.A. researchers: "Our impression is that the very development of cancer in man might conceivably result from the physiological effects of inner stress which has remained unresolved by either outward action or successful adaptation...
Girl Who Broke. At one point Idaho's Senator Herman Welker introduced the subject of Hinton's sister, Joan. She too went to China, and she and her American husband, Irwin Engst, still are working for the Communists on a dairy farm somewhere in Inner Mongolia...