Word: inwardness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Frugal City. The Communist plan fell into several stages. Decentralization would not only move out "nonproducers" but shift factories to the interior, where they would be closer to food, raw materials and coal. What remained of Shanghai would be turned "inward," i.e., weaned away from dependence upon foreign trade...
...wrestle with Britain's worsening financial plight, the conference of Commonwealth finance ministers met last week. An official later described the cheerless scene in Room D of the British Cabinet Offices: "They sat at blue-black, baize-covered tables in a hollow square, all looking inward and all with their backs to the wall." At one morning session, scheduled to begin at 10:30, a Commonwealth representative arrived ten minutes late. "Good evening," said Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps, with a frosty smile. "Good afternoon," was the reply...
...faculty was young and stimulating, his work was rewarding, and he had already begun lessons with the famed French organist, Charles Marie Widor. But Schweitzer's thoughtful happiness also carried with it some pain. "It became steadily clearer to me," he has written, "that I had not the inward right to take as a matter of course my happy youth, my good health, and my power of work. Out of the depths of my feeling of happiness there grew up gradually within me an understanding . . . that . . . whosoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing...
...what meaning lay hidden for me in the saying of Jesus: 'Whosoever would save his life shall lose it, and whosoever shall lose his life for My sake and the Gospels shall save it.' Now the answer was found. In addition to the outward, I had now inward happiness...
Some see a special significance in the fact that the U.S., where religion has most strikingly expressed itself in the activist tradition (i.e., hospitals, orphanages and other forms of good works), has taken so well to Merton's inward-looking brand of spirituality. Whether or not U.S. religious interests are growing more contemplative, they are certainly growing. Chicago Daily News Columnist Sydney J. Harris said of The Seven Storey Mountain: "This book shows how far we have traveled since the 'sos. First, we were the social revolutionaries, looking down our noses at Babbitts. Then we realized that social...