Word: inners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have served in the inner councils of American Presidents form a special fraternity. They may depart from Washington, but they never quite leave the White House. Their lives are forever influenced by their interlude of power and flavored by their reminiscences...
...also did my best to resist the counsel of those who can't stop shouting "We'll destroy our enemies! We'll wipe them out!" It requires considerable inner maturity and a well-developed understanding of the world not only to grasp the narrow bureaucratic aspects of defense policy, but also to see things in the broader perspective...
...Frank and Harold Levinson of Downstate Medical Center report in the Journal of Child Psychiatry that primary dyslexia is caused by some as yet unexplained defect in the nerve pathways that connect the inner ear, which helps control balance, with the cerebellum, the part of the brain that controls coordination. The result of this defect, they claim, is a sort of permanent motion sickness that affects a child's balance and scrambles incoming visual signals. In fact, they say, 112 out of 115 New York City children known to have primary dyslexia were tested and found to be afflicted...
...signs of growing tension in the White House. He held frequent marathon meetings with his closest advisers on Watergate. On four occasions, he escaped from the pressures by cruising on the Potomac River aboard the presidential yacht Sequoia. Such cruises in the past have signaled presidential anxiety, and his inner turmoil was shared by his top aides. They seemed confused and uneasy, fearful that no satisfactory way could be found to avoid a confrontation with Congress and anxious about the effect of such a showdown on the U.S. public...
...short pieces made use of live and taped music, slides, some very interesting lighting, and, of course, the large technical skills of the dancers. The choreography covered a wide range of themes. The introspective piece, "Inescape," used shadows on a backdrop as a literal projection of the inner self. It was a good distance in mood from the last dance, "Intern," where loads of huge black balloons were thrown onto the stage by unseen hands, then played with by the dancers, and eventually dropped off the stage where they were tossed around (and taken home) by the audience...