Word: inners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...professional photographers clicking shutters at every perceivable object on the American scene. But the reason becomes obvious from the story Strock told me about his assignment. His problem was to capture with one exposure a scene which surrounded him-a painting which covers 11,840 square feet on the inner wall of a special cylindrical building at Gettysburg...
...took my pill at eleven," reported Novelist Aldous Huxley in The Doors of Perception. "I [was] in a world where everything shone with the Inner Light . . . The legs, for example, of that chair-how miraculous their tubularity ... I spent several minutes-or was it several centuries?-not merely gazing at those bamboo legs but actually being them . . ." Amateur Mystic Huxley was experimenting with mescaline, a drug which some have thought might become a psychiatrist's tool, like pentothal and Amytal. The purpose of these drugs is to banish a patient's inhibitions and "bring him out of himself...
Only by small and frivolous outward signs can the world measure the Kremlin's inner struggle for power. But what makes the frivolous fundamental is the importance the Communist leaders themselves attach to pride of place: Who stands nearest the center atop Lenin's tomb? Who waves to the mob? Who doesn't? (On May Day, only Nikita Khrushchev did; on May 30, Khrushchev and Malenkov, in identical suits, waved identical hats...
...exposed, when in the buff, as more of a maudlin breast-beater than a Front Page chesty. Swept up by the Chicago literary movement just before World War I, he tried to temper his fondness for cadavers with pious offerings at the shrine of The Little Review. In its inner circle a young man might hear anything from a first reading of Sandburg's Chicago to Maxwell Bodenheim's murmuring cottony love messages into the rapt ears of plump bluestockings ("Your face is an incense bowl from which a single name rises...
...role of every segment of the American population in implementing it. "The story I should like most to stress for our foreign friends and visitors is that of the great army of the forgotten or even the unknown: dedicated people, who worked in obscurity for the education and the inner development of the racial minorities, particularly in the South...