Word: inwardly
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...best-liked of Hollywood professionals, a shambling, shirtsleeves type who actually uses words like "golly" and "gee" and is still married to his first wife after 14 years. He has also become one of the most gifted of character actors, a sublime technician for whom no inward emotion is too big to be fixed firmly in the smallest outward detail...
First is the national student strike. We learned two years ago who debilitating a strike can be when turned inward. There is little reason to lose time picketing classes in a vain attempt to "shut down" the university. Students can strike against the war regardless of the university--we need the university to close as little as we need its permission to go ahead demonstrating against...
...little guy against the big guy-the classic struggle of the haves against the have-nots or the have-not-enoughs. The conflict was softened by the belief in permanent American prosperity and submerged by the global traumas of the past three decades. Now that the U.S. is looking inward once again, and learning that its wealth is not limitless, populism is undergoing a revival...
...newspaper, that "when the big fish swim together, many little fish get swallowed up." Officially, the leaders of Western Europe had little to say about the trip, but they were obviously concerned about how their dealings with Soviet-bloc countries might be affected by the U.S.-Chinese rapprochement. The inward-looking Arab states of the Middle East were almost alone in giving only passing press and government attention to the events in Peking...
...corridor with a gently undulating ceiling leads to a sitting room filled with abstract art, then a smoking room whose circular walls flow inward at one point to form a cluster of seats in the shape of half-moons. The stark white dining room, which seats 24, shines under a luminous ceiling studded with 7,000 glass stalactites. The lighting can be altered from very bright to intime. Out of view but also done over is the ancient kitchen; heretofore state banquets have been catered affairs. The French press unanimously applauded Pompidou's devastating coup de main. Someone recalled...