Word: inners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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BEFORE I LEFT her apartment on Saturday, Mrs. Emmett read me an article from the Sunday Times written by Loren Eiseley. ("He's one of the only modern writers I like," she said. "The others are so full of examining their feelings and describing their inner thoughts--I don't think such introspection gets you anywhere.") In the article, Eiseley discussed the glacial epoch in relation to man's fear of nature, described our current world situation as the depths of winter, and deplored the "heedless ones" who want "liberation without responsibility" (here Mrs. Emmett looked over the clipping...
...Bargain Auto Parts Inc. Then, standing on a box inside the two-room trailer, Gold stripped away a section of ceiling insulation and tenderly removed a tiny microphone and a transmitter slightly larger than a pack of cigarettes. The bugging device, Gold explained, had been eavesdropping on the Mafia inner sanctum for six months, dutifully recording what his aides described as "a crime story bigger than Appalachin and the Valachi papers combined...
...receive parole," and "Banks in the Commonwealth have made a practice of denying loans and credit to women," are worthy of more attention than they are given in the report. Furthermore, because the study is not (as the authors admit), "a treatise on women and Massachusetts government," the inner dynamics of political processes are not fully explained. For example, is discrimination against women in education and the shortage of women in the Executive Office of Educational Affairs at all mitigated by the position of one woman who is head of the Board of Education? Such a question involves issues...
...feudal hierarchy, a fearsome religion is the bulwark of the status quo, and inbred into the people. Only when her youngest daughter dies is Kristina convinced that God wants her family to move elsewhere; only when Danjell claims to have heard God's call to Abraham in his inner voice, saying, "Get the to a land that I will show the," does he join with them...
Until recent years, the inner workings of Soviet scientific institutions have been glimpsed by only a few privileged visitors from the West. Now as part of the partial thaw in U.S.-Soviet relations, several American science writers, including TIME'S Fred Golden, have been taken on a conducted tour of leading Soviet research centers, from Moscow to Leningrad to Novosibirsk in western Siberia, and allowed to speak with scores of top scientists. Golden's report...