Word: inwardly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During his 20s, Waugh's comedy was vividly physical; in his 30s, it grew rapidly more metaphysical. In A Handful of Dust, for example, he turns entirely inward and laughs at himself. He personifies himself as a hero so taken with the past that he cannot cope with the present, and then witheringly satirizes his character and his art in the famous climax-a passage in which the hero realizes in horror the futility to which his passion for the past has condemned him. He must spend the rest of his life in a jungle clearing, reading Dickens over...
...continuity of development in the same area over some three or four thousand years, during most of which time the Chinese state had been a unified entity. As we might expect, this biggest, most isolated and distinctive, most long continued culture and society developed a strong tendency to look inward, an attitude of ethnocentrism or Sinocentrism, China being the center of the known world and of civilization, the non-Chinese being peripheral and inferior, China being superior to all foreign regions...
...fraternal complacency that has characterized some Nieman classes in the past is on the wane under Sargent's leadership. His quiet nature discourages the club atmosphere. But although he has diminished the inward focus of the Nieman program, he has not done much to enlarge the outward perspective...
...psychology, they seceded and established themselves as independent disciplines. Above all, for some time now, philosophy itself has been engaged in a vast revolt against its own past and against its traditional function. This intellectual purge may well have been necessary, but as a result contemporary philosophy looks inward at its own problems rather than outward at men, and philosophizes about philosophy, not about life. A great many of his colleagues in the U.S. today would agree with Donald Kalish, chairman of the philosophy department at U.C.L.A., who says: "There is no system of philosophy to spin out. There...
...board's safety experts are also considering recommending that airline personnel be required to explain before takeoff the operation of emergency exits (window exits swing inward). Another conclusion from the Salt Lake tragedy, in which many passengers were trapped in the aisles, is that airliners should have more and bigger exits. The CAB may even recommend that an entire section of an airliner's fuselage be designed so that it can swing open as an escape hatch...