Word: inwardness
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After a period in which an activist GSE tackled social problems, the 1980s witnessed a turn inward for the school, as GSE got out of the “teacher-teaching business” and turned into a school of “number-crunchers,” Elmore says...
Halberstam’s book alternates between two main themes; dramatic developments in the international arena—the end of the Cold War, explosive conflict in the Balkans and the disaster in Somalia among them—and America’s turn inward at home. Halberstam convincingly argues that, because of a variety of far-reaching changes in the past three decades—the collapse of the Soviet Union, new weapons which allow the U.S. to conduct military actions from afar, the abandonment of serious foreign news coverage by network television and the rise...
This is the process whereby victims become perpetrators. Xenophobia causes a people to turn inward and cannibalize themselves. A Muslim friend admitted to me that she was afraid of living with her own identity...
...liberal democracy and freedom. America’s great beauty and strength lies in its multicolorful populace, a strength that is fueled by diversity. An assault of this magnitude has the potential to rupture what we perceive as already tenuous bonds between us. We must turn the lens inward and seize the opportunity to re-define and reflect on what it means to be American...
While Gornick does have trouble turning the critic’s eye inward, she makes up for it with in-depth, critical analysis of some of the most important personal nonfiction of the twentieth century. She splits the writings into two categories: essays, in which the narrator explores a subject through his own relation with it, and memoirs in which the narrator explores herself through some external topic. Her discussion of the writings of Oscar Wilde, Edward Hoagland, Natalia Ginzburg, James Baldwin Orwell and Lynn Darling, among others, is done with the deft hand of an experienced teacher...