Word: inwardness
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...getting into khakis. But the commanding and familiar figure that strode past the barracks was dressed in civvies. The only martial markings were a brass wire on his right wrist, symbolizing his initiation into a Montagnard unit in Viet Nam and, on his other wrist, a watch crystal worn inward, combat style, to which was attached a gold tag with name and address, presumably to notify next of kin if anything happened to the bearer. The tag read: JOHN WAYNE...
...costly grace" of Christian commitment "can be more readily sustained among a small group than in a large impersonal setting." Cosby also rejects activism for its own sake. "Just getting involved," he says, "is often a form of escape." The true Christian ministry, he believes, must be an "inward and outward" journey-meaning both spiritual pilgrimage toward God and dedication to the service of humanity for Christ's sake. "Reconciliation of man with God," says Cosby, "cannot exist outside the reconciliation of man with...
...French are concentrated in Quebec, whose motto is a meaningful "Je me souviens" (I remember). Originally they meant to establish New France in the New World. With the English conquest of a land that French explorers and Catholic missionaries had opened up, they turned fiercely inward to survive as a minority on a vast English-speaking continent. Ill-educated, church-dominated, cut off by language and often by prejudice from improving themselves, the French Canadians grew ever more provincial. Only after World War II did the "quiet revolution" of the French Canadians take form, demanding better schools and opportunity...
...country they rule, at least, remains something of a concentration camp. Its capital city not only shuts its people in with an infamous wall, but its western borders bristle with 860 miles of fortifications-with machine guns pointing inward at the East Germans themselves. East Germany is still a police state, in which political prisoners by the thousands languish in jails...
...another meeting conducted at the same time, Dr. Paul Walters, a UHSpsychiatrist, equated the psychedelic cult with narcissism. Sexual satisfaction is derived from turning inward to fantasy, Dr. Walters suggested. As a result, "Consciousness-restricting is a more appropriate term than consciousness-expanding," he said...