Word: inwardness
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There is a similar lowering of voices-and turning inward-elsewhere in New England. One sign is the sharp decline in the number of letters to the editors of newspapers. Said Roger Linscott, associate editor of the Berkshire Eagle in Pittsfield, Mass.: "It's not apathy. People are involved in public affairs, but it's all local, at-home stuff." Town meetings in rural Amherst, N.H., have drawn overflow, boisterous crowds to debate how to limit the community's growth. Hundreds of demonstrators have virtually halted plans to build a nuclear power plant at Seabrook...
Their potential seems unbounded. The women turned inward to cultivate the strength to look outward, and it seems that strength has begun to grow. The members speak with pride and confidence of what they have done, what they hope to do, and how they feel about themselves. A supportive morale is emerging, growing from the warmth and spirit they have found in their sisterhood...
...blame the humanistic psychologies for furthering narcissim [Sept. 20]. It is true more people are spending time and money turning inward. However, the result, after working through "unfinished business," is openness, caring, creativity, spontaneity and joy interacting with others...
Perhaps this indicates no trend, perhaps the work of one "modern dance" troupe connects not at all with the current inward spiral of the arts. Hopefully, it's only Tanz-Forum that needs to be reminded that in dance, it's the present, not the thought, that counts...
...1970s, rising personal affluence and deepening individual power lessness. The late Marxist sociologist Theodor Adorno took what is probably the darkest view. Capitalism, he maintained, causes such alienation that "narcissistic merger" of the disaffected with charismatic fascist leaders is becoming more likely. Other critics argue that Americans are turning inward because of a sense that individuals cannot have important social or political impact. Says former Yippee Leader Jerry Rubin, now an experimenter in various self-improvement therapies: "Changes cannot be made on the political level alone. We must examine our own process...