Word: inwardness
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...warning though -- this intensity turned inward, which blinds the soul-searcher to her environment. Each woman considers herself in her freedom to be the lone master of her fate. Not until the end of the novel does reality finally break through the walls of introspection surrounding them, as the spontaneous violence of New York abruptly proves personal deliberation and longterm planning to be less than omnipotent...
Many moderate and big-city Republicans were deeply distressed, thinking Dole is too conservative. Moreover, Dole is a crony of Ford's, a fellow Midwesterner with an almost identical ideology. By picking him, Ford appeared to be looking inward instead of reaching out as the G.O.P. must do. Illinois Republican Senator Charles Percy believed that the selection of Dole compounds Ford's problem of winning in November. Said he: "If you are trying to reach voters in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and New England, where a lot of the people are, the question is: What can he contribute...
...lack of depth. They are, of course, full of admiration for the Chinese people, but they never seem quite comfortable with the extent of Mao's power, or with the Cultural Revolution's effect on foreign policy. For the six years of the raging debate, all energy turned inward, ambassadors were withdrawn; at the end, when the cultural group that led the fight against elitism decided the country needed time to rest, the debates ended, students were sent to the countryside to "learn from the peasants," and a new line of foreign policy emerged. Mao announced his intention of fighting...
...self assurance and resolve." Moynihan quoted the orator calling on the members of the educated class "to set themselves against the prevailing vulgarity that has become characteristic of American life: It is for them to endeavor to elevate the standard of public taste...to promote and foster...that true inward refinement which alone makes possible the higher social enjoyments that distinguish civilization from barbarism dressed...
Henry Adams' obsession with the dynamo remains an essential element of the American spirit. Yet in their inward-looking mood, Americans in 1976 are urgently trying to recover things that were taken for granted...