Word: inwardness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Europe was an inward pilgrimage of sorts. When he returned to Harvard he made a decision that had been forming for some time: he converted to Christianity. He now keeps a Bible in his office bookcase and frequently alludes to little-known passages, including one from the Book of Kings about a widow who had a cruse of oil that never ran out. In the U.S. today, he adds grimly, "There is no widow's cruse...
...write, it's zero outside. Snow is falling. But the Muscovites on their way to homes, universities or theaters this evening do not display the dour, inward-hunched, God-help-us visages of cold-stricken New Yorkers or Chicagoans. Snow is their friend, and servant...
With only two months experience, Sue has already defeated divers from Tufts, Dartmouth and Wellesley. She has learned all 21 different dives necessary to compete, and has overcome the fear of hitting the board on reverse and inward dives, a fear which she said originally hampered her performance...
There is a similar lowering of voices-and turning inward-elsewhere in New England. One sign is the sharp decline in the number of letters to the editors of newspapers. Said Roger Linscott, associate editor of the Berkshire Eagle in Pittsfield, Mass.: "It's not apathy. People are involved in public affairs, but it's all local, at-home stuff." Town meetings in rural Amherst, N.H., have drawn overflow, boisterous crowds to debate how to limit the community's growth. Hundreds of demonstrators have virtually halted plans to build a nuclear power plant at Seabrook...
Their potential seems unbounded. The women turned inward to cultivate the strength to look outward, and it seems that strength has begun to grow. The members speak with pride and confidence of what they have done, what they hope to do, and how they feel about themselves. A supportive morale is emerging, growing from the warmth and spirit they have found in their sisterhood...