Word: inners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Says MacPherson: "It's not just the demands, the constant travel, the constituents. It's the inner core of the politician to begin with. The kind of person who picks politics for a career is one who is not comfortable with one-on-one relationships. He prefers, all too often, the roar of the crowd." Among the results of such pressures: Joy Baker, after living most of her life for two Senators−father, Everett Dirksen and husband, Howard Baker−says sadly, "Politics has nullified my personality." Sharon Percy Rockefeller reports that her three-year...
According to Dr. Claus B. Bahnson, family therapist and professor of psychiatry at Philadelphia's Jefferson Med ical College, heart attacks tend to occur in "outer-directed" families-those that stress the need for success and approval by outsiders. Cancer tends to appear in "inner-directed" families. Such families often channel their emotional response to stress internally through the nervous system. This inward surge may upset the body's hormonal balance and, perhaps, immunological processes-two mechanisms that play a significant role in combating cancer...
Lewis is at his best when he attempts to outline the workings of Wharton's inner life, dismantling with obvious pleasure Percy Lubbock's depiction of her in Portrait of Edith Wharton as overly haughty and repressed. The Wharton who emerges from this biography is, by contrast, a woman whose pride is most often a cover for shyness, and whose dormant sensuality is a force that merely awaits release by the right...
...Discovering Inner Energy and Overcoming Stress Bloomfield, Cain & Jaffe...
...main topic of her conversations with a variety of regular guests at Harvard functions. They find her "extremely engaging" and likable, as one of them says. She is good at putting people at ease, but one observer sees "a veneer--she tries to appear calm but there is no inner peace...