Word: inners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...name Scoop when he peddled the Everett Herald in the red-light district. He went back as prosecuting attorney and cleaned the place up. Nowadays he quotes Churchill, who worried about America's inner strength and ability to "stay the course." He has read Mao and studied the lives of all the top Russians, and so he thinks we ought to keep our weapons modern and have plenty of them. That idea keeps setting him apart from the others. To him it is simple. You seek peace, but stay strong. We need...
...characters and lacerating tensions in Marigolds, it is an affirmation of life-the experimenting schoolgirl endures literally and symbolically, despite the emotional violence around her. Like her, Zindel has transcended his experience. Thoreau eventually went as far as Minnesota. For Zindel, Manhattan may be far enough; it is the inner distance that counts...
...than vandalism. Built at a time when the kingdoms of Upper and Lower Egypt were just merging, the Medûm project represented an obvious attempt by the early pyramid builders to improve upon their first effort, the Step Pyramid at nearby Saqqara. Rather than settling for the stepped inner structure, as they had done at Saqqara, they covered the Medûm pyramid with a smooth mantle that on each of the four sides ascended at a steep 52° angle. But, Mendelssohn says, as the heavy mantle grew, the stresses became so great that it eventually came tumbling...
...suffering from angina pectoris, the crippling pain that signals insufficient blood supply to heart muscles. But other surgeons, still skeptical, concentrated on alternative approaches. Dr. Philip Sawyer of New York's Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn developed a method of using pressurized carbon dioxide gas to separate the inner and outer walls of an artery so that the fat adhering to the arterial lining could be more easily removed. Others experimented with widening clogged arteries by inserting gussets made from pieces of the patient's saphenous vein...
Ford transformed these inner tensions into fiction that made him, at rare best, one of the finest novelists of the century. Parade's End, his tetralogy about a last Tory gentleman-the much-chivvied Christopher Tietjens-mirrors, with love and squalor, the death of prewar British society. The Good Soldier (1915) is so subtle and shapely a domestic tragedy that it very nearly makes good the narrator's extravagant claim: "The death of a mouse from cancer is the whole sack of Rome by the Goths, and I swear to you that the breaking up of our little...