Word: inwardness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lack of depth. They are, of course, full of admiration for the Chinese people, but they never seem quite comfortable with the extent of Mao's power, or with the Cultural Revolution's effect on foreign policy. For the six years of the raging debate, all energy turned inward, ambassadors were withdrawn; at the end, when the cultural group that led the fight against elitism decided the country needed time to rest, the debates ended, students were sent to the countryside to "learn from the peasants," and a new line of foreign policy emerged. Mao announced his intention of fighting...
...self assurance and resolve." Moynihan quoted the orator calling on the members of the educated class "to set themselves against the prevailing vulgarity that has become characteristic of American life: It is for them to endeavor to elevate the standard of public taste...to promote and foster...that true inward refinement which alone makes possible the higher social enjoyments that distinguish civilization from barbarism dressed...
Henry Adams' obsession with the dynamo remains an essential element of the American spirit. Yet in their inward-looking mood, Americans in 1976 are urgently trying to recover things that were taken for granted...
...Zbigniew Brzezinski emphasized the same point in his article. Deploring a growing American xenophobia and introversion in the face of a world that no longer seems interested in emulating the U.S. system, Brzezinski notes that the nation's chief role has long been "to stimulate change." Yet "an inward-oriented America would gradually cease to perform that role." That would be unfortunate, says Brzezinski, since "America still provides to most people in the world the most attractive social condition (even if not the model), and that remains America's special strength...
This is a monodrama artfully pieced together from the 19th century poet's poems, letters and reclusive life. Dickinson's was an inward journey, an intrepid exploration of the heart, the mind and the soul. The only tracks she left were her finest poems...