Word: inners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...keeps books on India, Soviet Russia and the atom in his cottage. Parkin is a rough, laconic collier's son who can understand neither his own mean circumstances nor the sources of Connie's passion for him. Lawrence lacked Thomas Hardy's gift for making the inner lives of simple people eloquent, but at least this Parkin makes the reader aware of the social chasm that Connie Chatterley proposed to cross. Similarly, the ambience of Wragby Hall, dominated by her crippled husband Clifford and his overbred friends, is more fully detailed and becomes one of Lawrence...
...shifting population documented by Packard includes not only the obvious categories, such as military men and migrant workers, but also athletes, actors, long-distance bus and truck drivers, salesmen, construction workers and airline stewardesses. Blacks flee the inner cities, and whites flee blacks. People displaced by urban renewal or superhighways are forced to pull up stakes. So, very often, are executives transferred to distant cities; to many of its employees, IBM means "I've Been Moved." The aged migrate voluntarily, becoming "snowbirds" in the sunshine of Florida or California. The young leave home to escape their parents...
...misogynist, but he has given ample evidence of it, and Fine says that Fischer is afraid of women. Much of his openly outrageous behavior can be attributed to his emotionally deprived childhood. And his struggle to the summit since then has left him still without the inner security needed to accept defeat. He is a killer-not necessarily in the Oedipal sense-because he must...
...toasted marshmallows have gone over the dam since the Boy Scouts of America was founded in 1910. Like many other institutions that have served the nation with pride and distinction during a simpler era, the Boy Scouts have an image problem. By some granny knot of fate, the inner city has come to challenge the resourcefulness of democratic frontier ideals. But the phrase "Boy Scout" still evokes vignettes of white suburban striplings rubbing sticks together in church basements...
Over the past few years of student unrest, boarded-up storefronts and broken glass on sidewalks have given some campus communities the look of inner-city ghettos. Now, as another college term approaches, merchants are preparing for the worst. Around the Berkeley campus of the University of California, for example, a group of store owners is organizing a credit association to help members whose property may be damaged by youthful protesters. Local businessmen are also putting together an area-wide electric-alarm system. They hope to have it finished by election night, in case President Nixon wins...