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...sides in the Middle East, the 90-day cease-fire that ended earlier this month became a time of military reinforcement. Now, with a second 90-day truce under way and their armories in order, the Middle East governments seem to be turning inward, taking advantage of the respite to settle long-smoldering political problems. Last week, from Syria to Egypt, a frenzy of internal housekeeping was in progress...
...would be unwise to push this fact too far. Except in France, where political philosophies tended to turn inward, most political movements of the past 150 years have been highly exogamous, often finding in partibus infidelium new ideas with which to mate. For many years, liberals have been in favor of expanding and improving social security; would it make sense to refer to them as "Junker liberals" merely because the first social security system was instituted in the regime of Otto von Bismarck...
...When they do engage in political activity, they adhere to the more radical, extreme, irrational, and defiant part of the group. . . more commonly, however, anger is directed inward, causing apathy, withdrawal, and depression...
According to Emde, a normal baby does not begin to smile in response to external stimuli-even a father's funniest faces-until the age of at least three weeks. Inward-growth grins still occur at 2½ months. But then comes a shift; if the child is awake and not crying, he tends to smile at comforting sights, sounds and touches. Soon his grins are triggered almost entirely by outside things, especially familiar faces. Secrecy is replaced by sociability-and parents finally get back smile for smile...
...CRITICIZES the indivious pushme-pullyou competitiveness of our economic system-and, as a result, the stifling individualism and aloofness each of us has felt. We are a nation of individuals, as Van Wyck Brooks observed, "cast inward upon our own insufficient selves." The uptightness is exacerbated by the disappearance of mitigating institutions, where we could take refuge from our terror- stricken aloneness. The extended family, the stable local neighborhood, where solace from this separateness and impersonality might have been found, are passing from the American scene...