Word: inwardness
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...having size anxiety,” Locker said. After her presentation, RUS gave away vibrators, sex books, and sex toys in a raffle, and Locker answered audience questions submitted on anonymous cards. “I hope everyone took away the important message that they should be looking inward to discover what you enjoy,” Locker said after the seminar. —Staff writer Danielle J. Kolin can be reached at dkolin@fas.harvard.edu...
...energies exploding outward to the edges of the canvas. It fell to Veronese in the mid-1570s to reconcile the two approaches. His Supper has more gestural drama than Titian's - arms are flung outward; one apostle's jaw drops. But because most of the figures are turned inward toward Christ, the picture has the coherence and structural integrity that Tintoretto's lacks...
...downturn-and unprepared to seize the opportunities it presents: "Companies are still underestimating the size and scope of the economic crisis. They are generally too optimistic about their own performance and believe that they have taken sufficient steps to respond to the crisis. They often tend to be too inward-looking in their forecasts, relying on their own 2008 experience rather than fully assessing the changing external environment: managers do not like to create or accept negative plans. Consequently, although taking action, companies have not adopted the steps either to protect themselves from the worst effects of the downturn...
...order to explain the pestering “0” in their loss column this season, Harvard players have looked inward. They believe that their offense was simply out of tune against the Terriers, and that this problem can be easily rectified...
...prestige and power of the relatively new Ming dynasty. There had not been anything quite like it in history, and the Chinese were recognized as the masters of the ocean. But a change in emperors and national policy curtailed the expensive naval forays after 1433, and China turned inward. As if to declare that centuries-long period over, Beijing staged elaborate celebrations in 2005 to mark the 600-year anniversary of the first expedition. The Ming voyages are now an inextricable part of Chinese nationalist lore - and its populist claim to the Indian Ocean...