Word: inwardness
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...suddenly increased enough so that the fast-moving neutrons triggered a chain reaction and the bomb exploded. The Nagasaki bomb used a more efficient method: a hollow sphere of plutonium was enclosed by shaped explosive charges. When the explosive was detonated, it sent much of its force inward, crushing the plutonium into a solid ball, a "supercritical" mass that released even more energy than the Hiroshima bomb. With the proper explosive and some plutonium fashioned into the proper shape, a skilled amateur might well produce a powerful weapon...
Stoppard, with his large, luminous brown eyes that seem to pierce both inward and outward, is a bit of a moon gazer. His background, like his voice, has a trace of the exotic. He was born in Zlin, Czechoslovakia, in 1937 as Thomas Straussler. When he was two years old, his father, a doctor, moved to Singapore. As the Japanese began infiltrating Southeast Asia, Tom, his mother and his older brother were sent on to India. (His father later died in a Japanese prison camp.) Tom learned English in Darjeeling. Taking his stepfather's name, he arrived in England...
...emigrating from Sweden, its terrors of the new country, its settling, its dances, a child's death, the plague of locusts that wiped out the farm and drove the family into rural show business. Terry Hinz is perfect as the boyish paterfamilias, but one remembers especially the dazed, inward quality of Mary Wright as Mrs. Andersson. Hers is a portrait of private, immigrant pride, of anyone who ever tried to live with dignity in a new language...
...Colony. That leaves the people who look inward, the mystics. Thompson approves of the effort of Yogi Gopi Krishna and German Physicist C.F. von Weizsäcker to meld Eastern wisdom with Western science. Such a union represents Thompson's ideal of Pythagorean science, involving "cosmological thinkers for whom art, religion and science are different idioms of the single language of contemplation"-in short, what Thompson regards as a means to the new planetary culture...
...nuclear fires go out, the stellar gases begin falling inward, finally crushing together into a ball less than three miles in diameter. Tiny as it is, the dense globe has such tremendous gravity that not even light can escape from it. Its gravitational force is so great, in fact, that a black hole could swallow up a nearby planet or even a small star...