Word: inwardness
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...people so widely scattered, the Palestinians remain remarkably cohesive. One reason is that they have been driven inward by enmity toward them, not only on the part of Israelis but also on the part of other Arabs. Although Arab governments support Palestinian organizations-Saudi Arabia alone contributed $26 million last year-their motives are at least as much anti-Israeli as pro-Palestinian. Indeed, the P.L.O. cause was probably strongest in the Arab world after the disastrous Six-Day War in 1967, when Arab armies had been roundly defeated and the underground Palestinians emerged as the most heroic and effective...
...Cunningham's primary contribution remains the redefinition of dance itself. It is a vision that has inspired a host of younger choreographers, most nourished in Cunningham's own company: Paul Taylor, Judith Dunn, Deborah Hay, Jack Moore, Dan Wagoner, Yvonne Rainer. In a century when painting has turned inward to explore the grounds of perception, and the "meaning" of poetry has become the relation of word to word and mind to language, Cunningham has created dance centered on nothing more than the activity of movement--and in so doing, in McDonagh's words, he "clearly demonstrated that dance...
Leading Princeton's Jim Malot by less than a point going into the final round of dives, Gavin watched as Malot contorted an inward one-and-a-half almost flawlessly for a 7,7 1/2, and 8 from the judges and lodged himself in second place...
Gavin was almost obnoxious in his coolness ("I felt like I was gonna kill it," he said afterwards) as he ripped of an inward one-and-a-half of his own with superior scores to cop the first of two board sweeps for the Crimson...
...nationalizations, if all economic activity is controlled by state-owned banks, if inflation accelerates because of excessive increases in wages and social benefits, if our trade balance deteriorates, if our currency depreciates rapidly?" Answering his own question, he replied: "What future, if not the closure of our borders, isolation, inward regression, international decline and more and more constraints on our economy and our society...