Word: inwardness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first-year Mwashuma Kamata Nyatta, a native of Nairobi, Kenya. Evans--an out-of-place scholar in the mining town--loves to learn, yet is not entirely able to tear himself away from other hobbies such as drinking and hanging out with his buddies. Nyatta intelligently portrayed this inward struggle with grace and thoughtfulness and was able to show us the many sides of his complex character, some of which were not entirely positive, such as his predilection for pub life. Overall, Nyatta utterly fulfilled the depth and dimension--an well as the quiet profundity and maturity--of Morgan Evans...
...decade later, neither of those goals have been accomplished. Most minority student groups have turned inward for political activism, and some of the leaders of those groups are questioning the effectiveness...
...here are talking about me or about other scholarship students from Bulgaria is that every parent (among the ones I have met) seems to know of some bright kid or some bright relative who has "succeeded" and is living abroad, either working or studying on scholarship. Instead of looking inward at the problems with which the country is faced and trying to figure out solutions, the usual Bulgarian is looking outward, more precisely westward, and hoping either that their child would be one of the "successful" ones or that, by some sort of magic, Bulgaria itself would "succeed" and become...
...cultural authority enjoyed by Dickens and Tolstoy. For one thing, leisure-time alternatives to reading books increased enormously: movies arrived, as did radio, recorded music, television and, of late, the Internet. These encroachments of mass entertainment--not to mention the march toward subjectivity prompted by Freud--drove writers inward toward personal visions. Literary influence in our century is thus not principally a matter of popular recognition. It refers instead to the authors who managed through their artistry to make themselves heard and remembered amid the surrounding...
...some new music that was mystical and playful, and so deliberately rough-edged that it seemed almost spontaneous. It wasn't, of course, but the music of those years--much of it heard in the song cycle that's known informally as the Basement Tapes--charted a more inward course. It was music that deflected any easy response...