Word: inwards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Actor Alda never quite conveys the inward drive that consumed Gershwin at the age of 38, but the sincerity and as surance of the surrounding players focus on him a force and dignity that make the central character amply credible...
...Author. The most inward of men and fastidious of playwrights, tall, fiftyish George Kelly oddly enough first won fame as a vaudeville actor. Totally lacking in ambition to write, he got started by writing his own vaudeville material...
...speculative London report suggested that the Nazis are using the same pressure principle to crush atoms. The crusher: A "Neuman" demolition charge, which explodes inward instead of outward. Used in a sphere, the Neuman charge might develop pressures of tens of thousands of tons per square inch at the center, perhaps enough to disintegrate an unstable atom such as uranium and release its explosive atomic energy. British scientists believe that such an explosion, though not far-reaching in area, would develop unheard-of violence at the point of impact...
Three Southern Senators not noted for their broad view of the world last week began to feel the inward stirrings of manifest destiny...
...testimonial to the best in his country's deep and simple honesty (as well as to the limitations of that honesty). People who had once thought Eakins scientific, dull, dogged, could scarcely fail to warm to the depth and humaneness of his perceptions; his heads, in particular, had an inward life, like well-banked fires. People who had once thought of him as an uninteresting, restricted colorist could not fail to see that in his taciturn, tender palette range he was as superb a colorist as Brahms was in music. Even those who spoke, with some justice, of Eakins' lack...