Word: inwardness
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...Army generals are ROTC men, including five major generals who are commanding divisions in Viet Nam; only one division there is headed by a West Pointer. Says Brigadier General Clifford Hannum, head of the Army ROTC: "The worst thing you could do is cause the Army to turn inward for its officers...
...heal a nation that demands proof of God? Why not look inward and ask for proof of man? Are we really here? Science cannot explain our embarrassing presence. It says matter cannot be created or destroyed. I suggest that if science can glibly accept our own presence, it can also accept...
Miniskirts on the Gran Via? Bikinis on the beaches? Student protests in the universities? An increasingly outspoken press? To many Spaniards, these outward and visible evidences of an inward and spiritual change in the nation's life came as welcome relief from the all-pervasive greyness that had characterized the rule of Generalissimo Francisco Franco ever since he was named Chief of State in 1939. The five-year experiment with liberalization, however, had horrified the archconservative military, and they made little secret of their concern. Two weeks ago, alarmed by student violence in Madrid and Barcelona, Franco declared...
Mumford considers the McCarthy movement and the revolt in the Universities proofs of his hypotheses and signs of hope. The first, he feels, was an effort to recapture for human beings a system that has become increasingly inward-looking--taking orders from its computers and social scientists instead of its subjects. The University upheaval he sees as a healthy effort to restore the University to its rightful place as detached critic of the system instead of participant in its oppression of human life. "Everytime a professor goes to the Pentagon he is binding the University that much closer...
...Congress was glad that the President had come back, for its first concern is with itself. Its impact on the world outside is scattered, usually punitive, petty. It looks after its own, and its own interests bear no particular relation to those of the nation. It is moribund, inward-looking, private. Its heroes are its defenders--men like Sam Rayburn, Carl Hayden, and Lyndon Johnson. On Tuesday night one of its heroes came back, back where he belonged