Word: inwardness
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...Family by Ian Frazier (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). The author, first visible as a New Yorker humorist, then as an observer in Great Plains, an elegiac portrait of the American heartland, turns reflective and inward in this long, moody rummage in time's attic. He began to gather material about his near and distant family after the death of his parents, searching, he says, for the meaning of life, for "a meaning that would defeat death." The journey -- perhaps more correctly his obsession -- began in 1987. Collecting family papers, dating as far back as 1855, he filed them in two boxes...
...Clearly as, I don't want to say your landlord, but as your neighbor, it's in our interest to have Harvard be an active neighbor and not to turn inward," graves says...
Eclectic, eccentric and often downright funny, the album resonates with the hard-won truths of self-examination. Byrne still comes across as a man who knows that danger lurks in the shadows of even the sunniest day, but his attention is focused inward, and the result is illuminating. "I can barely touch my own self," he sings on Angels. "How can I touch someone else?/ I'm just an advertisement/ For a version of myself." Nothing at All builds from a funky guitar figure into a vaulting ode to alienation as Byrne sings, "And the knife is near at hand...
...that we can never be fully worthy of their sacrifice,but it is certain that to be worthy at all, we cannot turn inward or stand still," Albright said. "To do so, would be to dissipate the heritage of freedom and to renounce indispensable virtues...
American trade sanctions would hurt the Chinese economy, said Perkins, which "would be the evidence the conservatives in Beijing would use to show the West is against the Chinese, and turn inward...