Word: inwards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...undertone it would not be suppressed. The bandage slipped, said some; others of more astuteness detected clear proof of Machiavellian schemes involving the use of drugged coffee. But at last the faintest murmur of discord is doomed to disappear, and not from any outward violence but through inward conviction. For, as is announced in another part of to-day's CRIMSON, the not unheralded blind-fold test on behalf of Old Gold cigarettes is to be held today in the CRIMSON building and is open to all comers...
Said Galleryman George H. Ainslie: "Some will condemn it on the ground that it is undraped . . . that is unessential criticism . . . only by stripping the figure could the artist tell the story he has told ... it expresses the inward idealism of the emancipator in terms of the physical -in the torso emaciated by labor but muscularly overdeveloped by the same toil. The crossed feet seem to grow out of the earth and the strange pose, at once naïve and striking, suggests ancient statues of Christ...
...protesting against the sluggish formalism of the English churches, declared that every man must experience a personal revelation of God, an "Inward Light," which availed more than mere parroting of Scripture. After the organization of the first Quaker community in Lancashire, the movement spread rapidly through northern England and Wales...
Methodists know that in the standard edition of Wesley's Journal, he wrote about himself that, as a young man "I had no notion of inward holiness" but lived "habitually and for the most part very contentedly in some or other known sin." Later, honest, forthright John Wesley became a High Church Episcopalian Clergyman, finally espousing Methodism. At the apogee of his potency, Pastor Wesley traveled some 5,000 miles a year, preaching and founding Methodist churches...
...Graduates' Magazine, from the educational controversies of the Advocate and the epistolary tempests of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin, it is clear that Harvard men are almost fiercely interested in their College, that they keep focused upon it a critical attention of peculiar intensity. The healthiness of so constant an inward direction of the critical eyes has been doubted; it has even been named morbid, a kind of introversion. If this were so, the alumni themselves could be counted on to make the most of it. The state of mind that can result thus seems worthy of examination, and the presence...