Word: inners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...roots to understanding this problem may lie in a dichotomy emphasized over 25 years ago by David Reisman, Nathan Glazer and Reuel Denney in The Lonely Crowd. In this study of the changing American social character, the authors identified traits of two opposing social characters: those they called "inner-directed" and those deemed "other directed." The inner-directed person, they said, "tends to think of work in terms of non-human objects," wanting money or power or fame or some other tangible reward for performance, and seeing and experiencing things primarily "in terms of technological and intellectual processes...
...Lonely Crowd traced a gradual development from the 19th-century emphasis on inner-direction to what the authors believed was a more other-direction orientation of post-World War II middle-class youth. While finding fault with both extremes, they appeared to be particularly concerned lest the balance shift too far towards other-directional orientation (as they later implied it did in the turmoil of the 1960s...
...tune was the Depression lament Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?, but the lyrics-sung by a character playing Mayor Abraham Beame in this year's Inner Circle satire by political reporters -are all too relevant today. Beame still cannot sell New York City bonds, and the state's Municipal Assistance Corporation securities marketed on the city's behalf recently suffered a ratings drop by Moody's Investors Service. Last week the city's unrelenting financial crisis gave New Yorkers yet another painful jolt. With the entire City University of New York system temporarily closed...
Although Sun Myung Moon sometimes appears to be a Christian evangelist, he is in actuality the megalomaniacal "messiah" of a new religion. Excerpts from speeches that "Master" Moon has given to disciples in the inner sanctum of his cult...
Membership in the Inner Circle of Advocates does not come easy, but this elite society, formed in 1972, is growing fast. To qualify, an attorney has to win a jury verdict of $1 million or more on behalf of a victim in a personal injury case. So far, 72 lawyers have been invited to join the organization. In the past month alone, there were three remarkable cases that merited Inner Circle recognition and will spur a growing concern about huge awards...