Word: inwardly
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...company, drives trucks, rakes asphalt. He has just got off work, and he slides into a booth at a little restaurant near his home in San Jose, Calif. For years he didn't talk about it. He couldn't. Even now it hollows him, and as his eyes turn inward and he retrieves pieces of the story, he cannot sit still. He grabs at himself, squirms, apologizes for not being able to express himself more eloquently...
...cultural authority enjoyed by Dickens and Tolstoy. For one thing, leisure-time alternatives to reading books increased enormously: movies arrived, as did radio, recorded music, television and, of late, the Internet. These encroachments of mass entertainment--not to mention the march toward subjectivity prompted by Freud--drove writers inward toward personal visions. Literary influence in our century is thus not principally a matter of popular recognition. It refers instead to the authors who managed through their artistry to make themselves heard and remembered amid the surrounding...
...along with the ruins of the same name, lies above Peru's Urubamba River, halfway between the city of Cuzco and the far better-known ruins of Machu Picchu. It is among the few remaining communities still laid out as the Incas planned: by night its residents sleep behind inward-slanting stone doorframes characteristic of Incan design; by day they farm corn and potatoes on the immense terraces their forebears carved out of the Andean slopes...
There is a special problem for boys, who were the shooters in all the 11 multiple killings at American schools in the past five years. When boys are ready to detonate, the signs are harder to read. Girls are more likely to decline into such inward-directed aggressions as depression or eating disorders. They are also more likely to put their feelings into words, an early warning that boys don't always offer. "The signals of boys tend to be discipline problems," says Gurian...
...acculturated to be in everyday life: polite, non-aggressive if not overtly submissive, attractive. Standing in line at Christie's today, I stared at the cover of some magazine where Sarah Michelle Gellar (the vampire-butt-kicker of Buffy fame) was posed, her head tilted down and body caving inward like some little girl who just had her lollipop taken away. Popular culture seems intent on muting and negating the power of any woman who dares to be even remotely large and aggressive--even if it's only...