Word: inwardly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lack of affiliations; 6. An unusual amount of seriocomic joking about this or that official investigating committee 'getting you'; 7. A shying away, both physically and intellectually from any association with the words, 'liberal,' 'peace,' 'freedom,' and from other classmates of a liberal stripe; 8. A sharp turning inward to local college problems, to the exclusion of broader current questions...
...SHORT, EASY AND COMPREHENSIVE METHOD OF PRAYER. Translated from the German. And published for a farther Promotion, Knowledge and Benefit of Inward Prayer, By a Lover of Internal Devotion...
...Inward prayer is the nourishment of the soul," he wrote. "For one may pray without forming or uttering any words, without consideration or speculation of the mind . . . yea, without knowing the least thing in a manner relative to the outward senses. And this prayer is the Prayer of the Heart, the unutterable prayer, the most perfect of which is the fruit of Love, and the less perfect a sensibility of our indigencies...
...literature-and the greatest stumbling block known to the stage. The play's scope, declared the late great Critic A. C. Bradley, is too vast for any stage to encompass; while Charles Lamb contended that the title role cannot be acted, that Lear's greatness is inward and "intellectual," and that when put behind the footlights he becomes merely "an old man tottering about . . . with a walking stick." There are other problems. The sharpest drama in the play-Lear's division of his kingdom-comes at the very outset, making the play itself all aftermath. There...
...concept of the relationship between Judaism and Christianity treated the problem, according to Herberg, "with a depth and originality that will make all future thinking on the subject dependent on his work." To him the two religions were "essentially of one piece, one religious reality: Judaism facing inward to the Jews, Christianity outward to the Gentiles. The two faiths are organically linked as complementary aspects of God's revealed truth. Yet they are not the same; they are distinct and different in their being and in their function . . . While Israel stays with God, Christianity goes out to conquer...