Word: inwardness
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...women rotating in a circle facing out. "Thout-tout-a-tout-tout," they sing, "throughout and about." The men put their weight only on the toes of their left feet, which gives them a hobbling gait. At a certain moment, the priestess breaks free and guides the others inward in a spiral. When she gets to the center, she kisses the man next to her and begins to unwind the spiral. Each woman then kisses each man, and the spiral opens up into a circle again...
...death and destruction in Vietnam, Nixon's cosmetic overhaul of the killing process placated dissent and the outrage felt by most students as recently as the May 1970 Cambodia invasion quietly slipped into history. Even the Harvard chapter of SDS, long noted for its opposition to the war, turned inward with its anti-Herrnstein campaign. A November 6 antiwar march drew only 5000 people from the entire Boston area: Harvard students guzzled beer at the Princeton game played on the same...
...first arrived in Moscow in August of 1968, the oppressive atmosphere brought about by the Czechoslovak invasion stifled all internal talk of political progress and economic or social reform. Orthodoxy ruled. Then the border skirmishes with China in 1969 and 1970 added to the tension and the turn inward. The Viet Nam War stymied negotiations with the United States...
...years after Losing Battles, her long, lyrical, raucous hymn to rural life, she has published a short, muted novel about dying and surviving. Though it contains the elements that have established her reputation-tart humor, the noisy, intricate chorales of Southern social life-this is a more inward, contemplative book than any she has written. Its concern is with what dies with the individual and what can be salvaged through memory and feeling. Its tone is rueful and uncompromising, especially in regard to the way people in this world treat loved ones about to enter the next. "What burdens...
...upon returning to Cambridge in 1967. According to Sloan, the nameless hero of his first book does not choose to take up the family tradition and enter politics upon his return from Viet Nam, nor does he completely eschew identification with issues of social concern. Above all, he turns inward for significance...