Word: inwards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Songster Grace Moore surpassed her predecessors in the quality of her message to other U. S. singers: "You CAN do it if you have talent, persistence, courage and the inward flame! First, have you God-given talent? If so, carry on beyond all obstacles! You must have the moral courage to face defeat smilingly, to keep your head up, your eyes straight to the front, and to shun the temptation of the primrose path. Carry on till you sing to 'His Glory,' till you can make a weary people forget the troubles of reality. And good luck...
Most of the pictures were the images of flowers seen through two lenses; the first a powerful magnifying glass, the second the iris of a perspicacious inward eye, whose function was to give clarity a significance beyond the decorative. In the way a purple petunia spread its violent petals, there was a hint, a symbol for truths not necessarily too deep for words to reach but outside the meanings from which words have been derived. It is enough to say that Miss O'Keeffe's paintings are as full of passion as the verses of Solomon's Song...
...relief. Said he: "The confessional, which Protestantism threw out the door, is coming back through the window, in utterly new forms, to be sure, with new methods and with an entirely new intellectual explanation appropriate to the Protestant churches, but motivated by a real determination to help meet the inward problems of individuals. Clergymen are giving different names to this form of activity such as 'trouble clinics', 'personal conferences on spiritual problems', 'the Protestant confessional'. The name makes little difference. What does matter is the renewed awareness in the churches that they...
...Rabbis attempted to make no "significant" statements this Yom Kippur. Ceremonies were more important than sermons. Jews had no great communal calamity to lament. Each turned inward in penitence, for a 24-hour examination of his conscience...
...arrives in Cambridge officially unnoticed. He has put aside the buoymant brightness of the youths who, making their college debut, are full of hope for the four golden years. He betrays no interest in the novelty of his surroundings. He has long outgrown the state of credulity that indicates inward illusions and is peculiarly attractive to book-agents and purveyors of pressing contracts. The upperclassmen returning passes through the Square unremarked. He belongs in it, for another year at least, like the Pill...