Word: inners
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Some would argue that his childhood experiences, as well as his mixed heritage (his father was Kenyan, his mother from Kansas), gives him a better inner compass on foreign policy than most Americans. They cite the pioneering work of Ruth Hill Useem, the late sociologist of Michigan State University, who spent her career studying what she called Third Culture Kids - the millions of U.S. children (an estimated 20 million since the advent of mass air travel) who have been carted abroad by their missionary, diplomatic, corporate or military parents. These frequent-flier kids don't spend enough time in their...
...from the burdens we’ve been carrying or from our inability to assume responsibility for those burdens? Perhaps, but this runs the risk of having no effect but self-flagellation. Then, we are as lost as we were when we began: personal problems and matters of inner-turmoil are addressed only superficially and are not lastingly resolved. If the Christians or other members of organized religions are trapped in this cycle of psychobabble, then there isn’t much hope for anyone else. Events like “Confessions”—and moreover...
...plague, fends for himself, searches desperately for other survivors and hunts down the bands of infected mutants who come out at night looking for people like him - if there are any people like him left. Both novels take a science-fiction premise and ask: What practical skills, what inner resources, can a man bring to battling life-ending odds? The Shrinking Man and I Am Legend are how-to books about coping with the unthinkable...
...Eleanor Perry from the story by Gail Rock, and directed by Paul Bogart, one of the All In the Family sitcom directors) is that it avoids the patented feel-good denouement of most Christmas dramas and takes us through a richer, more believable change in Robards' character. The inner hurt Addie endures at the hands of a father who can barely tolerate her presence is heart-wrenching; but her eventual triumph over it, and the unexpected act of generosity that brings it about, are as heart-warming as watching one of your children do the right thing without being told...
...killer calves and to proving my point that 50 is the new 30. 3. Lucille Ball: I love Lucy. Life is a series of awkward events, and you might as well face it with a quirky sense of humor. Lucy shows that you can revel in your inner you and still get a hubby with a foreign accent. 2. Helen Parr (aka Elastigirl; aka Mrs. Incredible): Not just a metaphoric superhero, Helen Parr is also a literal one. She proves that there are all sorts of advantages to being flexible—like saving the day. 1. The Wife...