Word: inners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is little question that violence has risen in America in the past few years. It is in the air, in speech, in gesture. People are uneasy on the streets, uneasy in their inner selves. The crime rate-especially violent crime -has mounted alarmingly. No laws have stemmed the tide of handguns that make killing so simple. Authority, legitimate or otherwise, is under attack as never before. Talk about politics is often murderous ("Oswald, where are you now that we need you?"). The Viet Nam War has had a profound effect on the American psyche, not only conditioning...
...contrast, the Abron people of the Ivory Coast are more aggressive-"but in ways which no biologist could predict on the basis of instinct theory." Their aggression does not seem to arise from an inner, unalterable genetic program. Instead, it is generated by external situations and is released only through socially approved channels. Initially, Abron children are indulged and fondled by all the adults around them and show no aggression-until a new child is born. Then, Alland writes, having been abruptly displaced from center stage, "most babies who have been quite placid up to this point begin to show...
Secret Souls. Yet the crucial issue for Kandinsky was not style but vision There is something hallucinatory about the richness of Kandinsky's stock of inner images. Of his way of seeing, he wrote that "everything 'dead' trembled Not only the stars, moon, woods, flowers of which the poets sing, but also a cigarette butt lying in the ashtray, a patient white trouser button looking up from a puddle in the street, a submissive bit of bark that an ant drags through the high grass in its strong jaws to uncertain but important destinations. Everything shows...
...print at conveying the atmosphere of that strange world where life is infused into new fortunes with a few beats of the stock ticker. It is a man's world. It is a world of immense wealth, of private airplanes equipped with tiled showers and Roman baths in inner offices, all described with goggle-eyed wonder. The book's main plot is a conflict in investment strategy between Milliken, who thinks that prices can go only up, and his boss, Choate Cavendish, who lives for the day when such whippersnappers find out what happens in a crash...
Bonds of Satan. At first, Herbert told W.C.G. members that Garner Ted was simply taking a long overdue leave of absence. Then, in February, the inner church membership-about 75,000 people-heard a letter from Pasadena so secret that their ministers were ordered to burn it after reading. Its message: Garner Ted was "in the bonds of Satan." At the end of April, the senior Armstrong made a more public statement to the broader church membership-the "coworker" category, which includes such sympathizers as Chess Grandmaster Bobby Fischer-explaining that Garner Ted had confessed to some kind of transgression...