Word: inwardness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...normal feminine woman is passive and masochistic (enjoys her own sufferering). Her activity is directed inward, not aggressively outward. If it is intense, she may become the domineering mother, or active in children's homes and nurseries, but she is always conservative, matriarchal...
...made special contributions. The first skate that could be steered was invented by Yankee machinist James Leonard Plimpton in 1863. It consisted of two pairs of wheels which turned inward or outward as the skater shifted his weight. Modern skates still use this principle. Jackson Haines, father of figure skating on ice, mastered the pre-Plimpton rollers and toured Europe...
Munch was a highly neurotic, misogynous, inward-turning artist who led the revolt of the '90s against the formal, detached, analytical approach of the French Impressionists. Munch and his followers, trying for the highest degree of personal, emotional expression, deliberately set out to step up the passionate style of Vincent van Gogh. Munch's first one-man Berlin exhibition, in 1892, contained 55 screechingly colored, cacophonously designed canvases. Munch's best-known Expressionist contemporaries were Emil Nolde, Max Pechstein and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff...
...most phenomenally gifted fiddlers who ever lived, he ignored the classic repertory with a persistence that drove critics to fury. He liked to offer his own grand fantasia on Yankee Doodle, playing with a rapt expression ''as though," remarked one critic, "he were wrestling with the inward spasms of a Pythian frenzy." He liked to astound his audiences by performing on all four strings at once, a trick he managed with the aid of a special flat-topped bridge...
...grew, held regional meetings. Fortnight ago, in Manhattan, Watson's R.P.P.A. warned the G.O.P. that isolationism means defeat in 1944. Said Member Mayo A. Shattuck, president of the Massachusetts Bar Association: it would be a calamity if the election of a Republican ticket should mean "another gang of inward-turning, narrow-minded stuffed shirts...