Word: inwardly
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...story needs its large cast; but on the stage, the more it does with the one the less it can do with the other. Yet to keep close to the center, to what the monsignor learned about Nerone and about himself, would mean being involved with mystical matters and inward ones, things hard for the stage to bring off. The play, as it stands, is high-purposed and rather high-pitched, is vivid and at the same time ill-harmonized...
...from the main body of their sputnik, and pointed it in the correct direction, presumably by discharging small rockets or gas-jets. When it reached the preselected point on its orbit, the main rocket fired, contributing additional push that made the station spiral away from the earth and curve inward toward the sun and the orbit of Venus (see diagram...
...Inward Eye. Politically, Schirmbeck is an annoying cafe neutralist; he indulges himself in an overcrude lampoon of U.S. Physicist Edward Teller, and solemnly puts forth the preposterous view that Atom Spies "Arthur and Edith Rosenbluth" were martyrs in the cause of freedom of information. But the author's principal concern is examined exhaustively and well: If the eye of science offends, should it be plucked out? The heroic Prince de Bary refuses to build war brains for the OSI, and retires to a life of contemplation. Subtly enough that the truth does not cloy, Schirmbeck answers his own question...
...passage must sound uncomfortably like the kind of sentimentalities spouted by the humanist Devil in Shaw's Man and Superman. Jesus, writes Murry, "is the spirit of liberated Man: Man's Love, man's Imagination; his passion for friendship; his unconquerable desire to trust; his inward knowledge that without trust there is no joy; no happiness; his everlasting longing to make a new beginning; his lovely humility, his hunger for laughter that is not cruel, his desire for a square deal, his loyalty to friendship, to love and to truth; his sense of shame for the other...
...Collected Short Stories of Conrad Aiken. Well cut, correct and a trifle oldfashioned, the author's short stories deal brilliantly with inward torment but less well with events; the best of them are of a very high order indeed...