Word: inners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...century that, in his opinion, had ripped up the nourishing taproot of tradition and let wither all the dear things of the world. God it had killed and in his stead had raised up gadgets; and in gadgets had gone haring into outer space to hide from an inner vacuity unbearable to contemplate. Reflected in his icy eye, a mad world knew that it was mad, but it has recently suspected that Waugh, like most great satirists, was a little mad as well. In his later years he became in fact the most scarifying of his own caricatures: a Quixote...
Despite their successes, these Fifties Liberals retained a feeling of isolation. Virtually all articulate opinion in the state, outside the inner circles of the Party and the United Auto Workers, was ranged solidly against them. The newspapers were stridently Republican, and the constant barrage of derision and criticism tended to put these idealistic Democrats purely on the defensive. Advertising and public relations were looked upon as weapons that could be used only by the opposition...
This time the lift-off was awfully slow, but former Astronaut John Glenn, 44, didn't mind a bit. Bumping up the slopes on the T-bar at Stowe, Vt., Glenn pronounced the terrestrial view "beautiful" and prepared all systems for the descent. Thoroughly cured of the inner-ear trouble that caused him to yaw and pitch two years ago, after he whacked his head on a bathtub, Glenn roared down the slopes with perfect balance and later lamented that he doesn't have a chance to practice more, seeing as he lives down around Houston, where...
...life, they cannot evade a questioning anxiety about its meaning. The apparent eclipse of God is merely a sign that the world is experiencing what Jesuit Theologian Karl Rahner calls "the anonymous presence" of God, whose word comes to man not on tablets of stone but in the inner murmurings of the heart...
...space than any other U.S. library-4,800 chairs, including 1,300 at group tables, 450 at individual tables, and 1,800 in one-man carrels. It will also have 2,000,000 books available in open stacks, more than any other library. The Johnson design includes a dramatic inner atrium open from floor to skylights, affording cross-court views of grilled staircases, two-story reading rooms, and what Hester terms "a library in action...