Word: inners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Acceptance. When he was nominated anyway, Stevenson accepted with a speech that was memorable for its eloquence, but still betrayed his inner doubts. He had not sought the nomination, he said, because the burdens of presidential office "stagger the imagination." He continued: "Its potential for good or evil, now and in the years of our lives, smothers exultation and converts vanity to prayer. I have asked the Merciful Father-the Father of us all -to let this cup pass from me. But from such dread responsibility one does not shrink in fear, in self-interest, or in false humility...
...friend Bill Inge and assured us that a play produced by Inge-art will carry us through the trivial details of everyman's day into that playpen of pain and love, the human heart, and that it will do this miraculously, suddenly droppings us at the doorstep of inner truth just when we thought that the real problem was Mama's bank account and not Mama's need for love. And there was a time (Come Back Little Sheba, Picnic, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs) when Bill Inge may have had the little lamp of truth...
...Frey worked closely with Clark at Indianapolis, calls him "the epitome" of a racing driver. "His greatest asset," says Frey, "is his imperturbability. When he was five or ten years old, a gyro began spinning somewhere inside him and he became his own standard maker. He's inner-directed. He lives in his own world...
...Clark has been "inner-directed" ever since he was nine and studied every move his father made as he drove the family Austin Seven around the fields of Edington Mains, the Clarks' 1,200-acre Berwickshire farm. One evening Mama Clark glanced out the window to find the Austin rolling merrily across a field-apparently with nobody at the wheel. "Jim was told he must never do that again," says Mrs. Clark. "But you can't watch an active boy all the time, can you?" Shipped off to private school, Jim learned all about rugby, cricket, field hockey...
...lnferno, the most exciting of the canticles, reads like a scenario for the ultimate horror movie. Hell, as Dante conceives it, is formed in the shape of a funnel. Terraces circle its inner surfaces in a descending series of damnations. In the first circle, the innocent shades of pre-Christian times exist in peace. In the next four, the souls of the incontinent are tormented. Heresy, violence and fraud have their reward in the sixth, seventh and eighth circles, and traitors fill the bottom of the pit-a region not of everlasting fire but of eternal...