Word: inwardness
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Clothes & Shoes. But the breathless sense of urgency and the inward knowledge that in undermanned, underfed, underdeveloped Middle Africa today each needs the other has infected all races. Each jealously watchful of its own fancied prerogatives, the multicolored people of Africa are learning, often faster than they want to, how to live and work together. Those who proclaim that the white man's day is done, and are convinced that the African is ready to take over without help, speak too quickly. Without British aid and guidance, Ghana's ambitious Twi Tribesman Nkrumah could never have founded...
...told of being barred from a café table because he was a Mexican. "The Irish have a saying, 'It's easy to sleep on another man's wounds.' Well, what's the difference,? Mexican, Negro, what have you? The assault on the inward dignity of man, which our society protects, has been made." And this, he said, is an assault on the very idea of America, which "began as a new land of hope . . . For whom does the bell toll? You, the white man, think it tolls for the Negro. I say, the bell...
...hippopotamous pursuit. Horses bolted; pedestrians bounced like skittles. But just as the long arm of the law was on his shoulder, the fugitive took a flying leap at the tummy of a startled fat lady. As he hit head first, her midriff split up the middle and swung inward like saloon doors. The fugitive plunged through-and disappeared...
...extent, Wolfe stands alone in this attitude of affirmation, which is partially tragic and essentially "realistic," but on the whole, optimistic about the value of living and the inward strength of his country. "You know that I am no Pollyanna now, or that I think God's in his heaven. I don't and I agree with Ecclesiastes that the saddest day of a man's life is the day of his birth--but after that, I think the next saddest day is the day of his death...
...Krishnamurti, all references to the future veil and obstruct the self from realization in what he defines as the present Being). Gossip and newspapers, for instance, originate from concern for others, lead to externalization and inward emptiness. But he fails to see that the self must define itself by that very concern for those others among whom the self is undeniably and inextricably "thrown." Denying our interest in others excludes a vital part of ourselves...