Word: inners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is an inner middle-American humility about Nixon; he is not usually a grandstander. His style is subdued, although in the larger sense he understands the elements of drama. His manner fits that of the Chinese. He dresses plainly. He does not plunge into crowds to shake hands. He moves slowly and talks rather sparingly. He does not launch himself on a grand tour, exhausting himself and his hosts...
...been stolen from the nation for a few days, taken off in the mists of China and held there. There is the thread of television that beams back the story of ceremony, what there is of it, and sight seeing, but fails to give a sense of the inner working between Mao, Chou and Nixon. There is less here than meets the eye, of course, but even a little is a lot after 20 years...
...mellowed by the fact that youngsters are involved, also by a vague sense that maybe Westerners don't really understand, that this may be a necessary step along the way. Who really knows? But walking down those dark halls, with the high voices echoing behind, one feels an inner shudder...
...Milwaukee, nine black inner-city bartenders have completed an experimental program designed to give them elementary counseling skills and teach them how to show emotionally sick barflies the way to psychiatric clinics. The course of study, sponsored by the Mental Health Association, included discussions with social workers plus field trips to a storefront mental-health clinic and a center for rehabilitating alcoholics. According to the report, the program actually worked...
Flannery O'Conner's characters are pussy, scruffy, and deformed--outwardly the manifestation of their inner selves. In the circumspect way in which she enters the minds of her characters, she reveals in their small-heartedness and small-mindedness, the disease of mental and spiritual sin. In "The Geranium" and "The Last Judgment" old age is Dudley's leprosy; in "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" it is Lucynell Crater's retarded, overweight daughter; in "Everything that Rises Must Converge" it is Julian's mother's bigotry; in "The Lame Shall Enter First" it is Rufus Johnson...