Word: inwardness
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...show on television. This year the Muppets won an Emmy Award as TV's "outstanding comedy, variety or musical series." A gentle but consistent satirical breeze blows through The Muppet Show and saves Jim Henson's creatures from the grisly danger of being too lovable. Mostly the satire turns inward, joshing show business (the assumption that frames the series is that the Muppets are members of a theatrical troupe, trying frantically each week to put on a variety show) and Muppet nature itself...
...fellows is to achieve enlightenment" or "Everything is interconnected, the good with the bad, how can you change anything in the universe or in man. Accept the world as it is, here and now." But while rejecting such beliefs for causing people to look inward, one must realize the rejection is based on one's own set of values and beliefs, which are no more right or wrong than those under attack...
...postwar dream has failed, and that the only hope is to form regional trade blocs, with every bloc for itself." Europe's Common Market is one of the great imaginative ideas of the 20th century, she continues, but right now the Europeans are debating whether to turn inward or outward...
...realize that the life history of a star is essentially a tug-of-war between two powerful competing forces. On the one hand, there is the great outward pressure on the star's gases created by radiation and heat from its internal fires. On the other, there is the inward pull of the star's gravity. In a star like the sun, the battle between radiation and gravity is long stalemated; the sun has been shining for some 5 billion years and will remain relatively unchanged for another 5 billion. After the star exhausts most of the hydrogen near...
...shape and pulls off large amounts of gases. As the particles of gas spiral inward, or biting the black hole in ever tighter circles before entering the event horizon, they collide, compress and heat up. Temperatures within this so-called accretion disk of gases surrounding the black hole reach 10 million degrees C, sending streams of intense X rays into space...