Word: inwards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Congress was glad that the President had come back, for its first concern is with itself. Its impact on the world outside is scattered, usually punitive, petty. It looks after its own, and its own interests bear no particular relation to those of the nation. It is moribund, inward-looking, private. Its heroes are its defenders--men like Sam Rayburn, Carl Hayden, and Lyndon Johnson. On Tuesday night one of its heroes came back, back where he belonged
Twofold Malaise. In the more formal arenas of politics, France's opposition parties have failed to exploit the Gaullist shortcomings. Reduced by the Gaullist landslide to numerical insignificance in the National Assembly, the parties have turned inward on themselves instead of ganging up on the Gaullists. Split over the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, the Communists are preoccupied by internal feuds. The Socialists, who are still in shock from their election drubbing, seem psychologically incapable of regaining their old fire. Declares Francois Mitterrand, president of the Federation of the Democratic Socialist Left: "The Federation is more a victim of itself...
Analyzing data at the University of Western Ontario, Geophysicists Lula Mansinha and Douglas Smylie found that the circular path traced by the North Pole between 1957 and 1968 was actually composed of interrupted arcs that spiraled almost imperceptibly inward. The inward motion, they decided, was an indication that the earth's wobble had begun to decrease for short periods of time. But between each of the arcs comprising the circle there was a break, marking a time when the wobble suddenly increased. Significantly, Mansinha and Smylie reported in Science, nearly all of the breaks occurred at the time...
...Everybody says that the two problems facing our society are racism and the war. Cleaver says it. Gregory says it. The New Left says it." She paused to light a cigarette. "More and more, however, their protest is turning inward, turning from racism and the war to the society which has brought them on and sanctions them. The system itself is at stake--and the issue is the immense gap between the way people could live and the way people do live." Her voice lowered...
Instead of chasing every available federal research dollar, the report suggests, the university should look inward and accept only those projects that will directly relate to its own goals. As part of an involvement in pragmatic off-campus problems, the report proposes that the university enter into contracts with private industry in order to introduce new ideas and inventions, such as new ways to dispose of industrial wastes. The university would supply the expertise, while the company would offer its management savvy and resources. Once an innovation was shown to be feasible, the university could move on to another company...