Word: inwardness
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...Graduates' Magazine, from the educational controversies of the Advocate and the epistolary tempests of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin, it is clear that Harvard men are almost fiercely interested in their College, that they keep focused upon it a critical attention of peculiar intensity. The healthiness of so constant an inward direction of the critical eyes has been doubted; it has even been named morbid, a kind of introversion. If this were so, the alumni themselves could be counted on to make the most of it. The state of mind that can result thus seems worthy of examination, and the presence...
Songster Grace Moore surpassed her predecessors in the quality of her message to other U. S. singers: "You CAN do it if you have talent, persistence, courage and the inward flame! First, have you God-given talent? If so, carry on beyond all obstacles! You must have the moral courage to face defeat smilingly, to keep your head up, your eyes straight to the front, and to shun the temptation of the primrose path. Carry on till you sing to 'His Glory,' till you can make a weary people forget the troubles of reality. And good luck...
Most of the pictures were the images of flowers seen through two lenses; the first a powerful magnifying glass, the second the iris of a perspicacious inward eye, whose function was to give clarity a significance beyond the decorative. In the way a purple petunia spread its violent petals, there was a hint, a symbol for truths not necessarily too deep for words to reach but outside the meanings from which words have been derived. It is enough to say that Miss O'Keeffe's paintings are as full of passion as the verses of Solomon's Song...
...relief. Said he: "The confessional, which Protestantism threw out the door, is coming back through the window, in utterly new forms, to be sure, with new methods and with an entirely new intellectual explanation appropriate to the Protestant churches, but motivated by a real determination to help meet the inward problems of individuals. Clergymen are giving different names to this form of activity such as 'trouble clinics', 'personal conferences on spiritual problems', 'the Protestant confessional'. The name makes little difference. What does matter is the renewed awareness in the churches that they...
...Rabbis attempted to make no "significant" statements this Yom Kippur. Ceremonies were more important than sermons. Jews had no great communal calamity to lament. Each turned inward in penitence, for a 24-hour examination of his conscience...