Word: inwardly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...uninterested in the haunting, elusive landscape that for centuries has been the obsession of English painters. Rather, it is the minor and least honored theme of English art, literary painting, that has primed their vision. The time may be ripe for them. Among collectors and critics, weary of the inward-turned, paint-for-paint's-sake language of abstract expressionists, almost any lively new departure stirs serious interest...
...sons. So much is omitted, in fact, that little is left from which to deduce Chaplin's mature feelings and beliefs-beyond his lifelong insistence that he has never been a Communist, and the apparent mellowing of his resentment against the U.S. as he grows old and turns inward to bask in the profound joy of his life with his fourth wife, Oona O'Neill, and their eight children...
...bedeviled Republicans for two decades. "The eyes and ears of the entire world were turned to that speech," said Barry, "looking and listening for the vision and strength that would once again put America on the high road of world leadership. Instead, the world witnessed a vision turned inward, isolated and sighted only toward domestic political advantage...
...plane crash, he had extended U.N. influence and broadened his countrymen's horizons. Younger Swedes, who previously showed little interest in world affairs, now generally support Western proposals for an ambitious Swedish foreign aid program in keeping with its affluence. "They used to turn instinctively inward," says Premier Tage Erlander. "I sense a great change...
DREAMTIGERS, by Jorge Luis Borges. Going blind, Argentina's greatest writer has turned inward to the mirrors of his mind, and in this slight volume of poems and parables has dreamed himself into multiplicity of recollections and roles...