Word: inners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sense of up and down" in zero-G. Explained Kerwin: "You say to your brain: 'Brain, I want that way to be up,' and your brain says: 'O.K.' " Speculating about this unexpected phenomenon, Kerwin doubted that it was connected with the balance mechanism in the inner ear. "I think it's strictly eyeballs and brain," he said...
Open Sepulcher. My second dream, six days later, brought me once again into that cemetery. This time, however, I noticed that the trees were unnaturally large and gnarled, as if they sucked some secret vitality from the inner earth. To my ears came a faint, loathsome piping, like the whining, thin mockery of a single feeble flute that was to start an unwholesome elfin celebration. Just before I awoke, feverish and gasping, I noticed a cowled figure Who beckoned slowly to me, and with a gaunt finger pointed into Lovecraft's open sepulcher...
...rhythms of ululation in dissonances of extreme morbidity and cacodemonial ghastliness. As I somehow anticipated, the cowled figure, his face ever hidden, approached and tugged my pajama sleeve, pulling me toward the open Lovecraft tomb. Forgetting danger, cleanliness and reason, I ventured into the yawning Stygian recesses of the inner earth, down inclined passageways whose walls were coated with the detestable slimy niter of the earth's bow els. My whole being choked on the stinking confluence of incense fumes, and a cancerous terror clutched my chest with strangling tendrils. Penultimately we reached a vast vaulted room lit with...
Even more than Mitchell, Maurice Stans represented the inner establishment of the Republican Party, having served as a major G.O.P. link with corporations and businessmen back through the Eisenhower Administration, in which he was Director of the Budget. Stans became Nixon's Commerce Secretary in 1969 and left in February 1972 to become the chief fund raiser for the Nixon campaign...
Mitchell's fall from grace has been abrupt and painful. Always outwardly serene but reflecting an inner toughness, he seemed oblivious to any kind of criticism. He brushed aside complaints by civil libertarians that many of his measures-including the mass May Day arrests of antiwar protesters in Washington in 1971-were part of a trend toward repression by the Government. Mitchell accurately enough accused the protesters of "bullying people, shouting down those who disagreed with them," but he also venomously compared them with "Hitler's Brownshirts." He seemed unflustered when the U.S. Supreme Court last June declared...