Word: inners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...between palace and steam roller, drawn years before the invention of the tank but moving blindly across a dead landscape manned by a gunner and some top-hatted diplomats, popes and kings. But his most memorable images were elegies of dispossession: of that dark tract between social role and inner imagination whose verbal maps were drawn by Kubin's Middle European contemporary, Franz Kafka. The Guilt, 1902, is quintessential Kubin: a starveling figure immersed to his knees in water, bent double under the weight of a fat, disaffected-looking seal-slimy, absurd and immovable. The beast is not even...
Many Hill veterans also consider the inner White House staff, apart from the legislative liaison team, inept in its approach to Congress. One member of that staff claims that his colleagues "don't understand politics, much less the congressional variant of national politics. They don't know what finesse is. This is government by political advance...
...time. In 1963, after he had been selected to pilot one of the early Gemini flights, Shepard was dropped from space flight and barred even from flying except when accompanied by another pilot. Reason: he was plagued by Meniere's syndrome, a puzzling disturbance of the inner ear, possibly caused by a buildup of fluids, that produces vertigo, nausea and ringing noises. An able, no-nonsense administrator, Shepard was made chief of the Astronaut Office in Houston. But his longing for the launch pad remained. In 1968, on his own insistence, he underwent a complex ear operation (involving implantation...
...government investigation that declared the whole incident an outrage. (Again, shades of My Lai. That the government could find fault with specific acts that its own policies are calculated to support is the real outrage.) Honus and Candice smile sweetly at each other. You can just sense their Inner Peace. Honus fingers the love beads. Candice brushes her hair out of her eyes...
...without too much cloy-she captures the minutiae of matrimony and maternity, evoking only too clearly the "educated" woman's dilemma, torn between vulnerability for her children and her demands for self. The Reynoldses make a city scene familiar in particular to New Yorkers. But Margaret's inner scene will be recognized and applauded by young mothers everywhere who, like Margaret, are "too old for an identity crisis and yet not past the age of uncertainty." If the authors insights are at times more precious than rare, her message is not. It is meant for those...