Word: inwardness
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...sees the major weaknesses of the Congress as rooted in the committee and seniority systems which "tend to produce narrow and inward looking" congressmen who are only interested in advancing in the internal power structure and not interested in the nation's problems...
...very lively Allegro vivace in the opening of the Gloria. He took the huge fugue, "in Gloria Dei Patris, Amen," at a breakneck speed which left the audience--and the singers--breathless at the intermission. The last movement, Agnus Dei, was extremely dramatic as the singers' supplications for "inward and outward peace" were interrupted by the trumpet calls of war. The several tempo transitions in this movement were managed smoothly and effectively...
Shaken severely by the three Furies of Watergate, inflation and energy crisis, large numbers of Americans have lately lost faith in their leaders and institutions. The people are looking inward-to community, family and self -and discovering a new spirit of self-reliance. Yet by demonstrating their disenchantment with their public officeholders-large numbers of whom will surely be turned out this fall-the people are also creating a power vacuum at the national level. Says Bill Moyers, the former presidential press secretary who now travels the length and breadth of the land to find material for his weekly television...
...current combinations of crises, Princeton Historian Eric Goldman says: "This kind of malaise atrophies the will of the people. They tend to turn in among themselves and say, 'I'll take care of my family's concerns.'" In many ways Americans are drawing inward and becoming more conservative in their career goals, their finances and their politics. Some examples...
...permits comparison with such illustrators as John Tenniel and Edward Lear. His Grimm pictures draw on a tradition that encompasses not only the lessons of 15th and 16th century engraving but the lyricism of English illustrators of the 1860s. There is even a personal touch. The stocky shapes and inward gaze of some of Sendak's bearded peasants suggest the vanished rural world of Polish Jewry that Sendak's father migrated from early in the century...