Word: inwardness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...each of the six dives, Kaufman preceded Ozkum to the board, picking up 5.5s and 6.0s only to be matched by her Crimson adversary. Kaufman seemed to have captured the event with a high-arching back dive, but Ozkum snared a 7.0 and first place with an inward dive from the layout position...
...Middleclass Americans are now more inward-looking and concerned with the quality of life, less determined to get ahead by moving to new jobs and new towns...
...attraction of ethnicity, Patterson contends, is nothing new; it is, rather, a primordial problem. Its source lies, he argues in his introduction, in man's basic inward struggle between the "centrifugal pull of the group" and what Patterson proclaims "the noble drive towards individualism." Patterson puts his finger on a fundamental conflict between men's need to revel in their distinctiveness from other cultures--by banding together around unique cultural symbols--and their individualistic desire to strike out and forge independent identities. Patterson thus makes the daring intellectual move of taking on all the various and sundry historical forms...
During this period Boston's residents, influenced by the inability of city officials to do more than raise taxes, were under constant pressure to leave. Many did just that, but the majority stayed. Those who remained turned inward to their neighborhoods, which had always been strong, for support. As steadfast as these people were, however, they were under constant attack from the rising tax rate, the rising crime rate, the overcrowded schools, and the overall unwillingness of the state or federal government to provide real relief. As a result, they lost confidence in all levels of government including the courts...
...narrative is a wild journey, frequently crossing from his personal consciousness into the national political consciousness and back again without warning. But then, that is perhaps the best way of dealing with a political phenomenon like Watergate that turned people inward, and turned many off to further political events...