Word: inwards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Surrounded by mock shanties and uniformed Harvard police, Silvers also told the University to turn its glance inward. In a soft, rich voice, the activist argued Harvard has drifted from its ideal of truth to become a repressive, secretive community...
...first kiss, it seems, is a "one-celled organism" that evolves "into something rather grander--a bird of paradise, for example." Falling in love involves "a kind of inward lurch," as if one "were having a dream about falling off a ledge." Adultery, despite its dazzle and heat, gets polished off as "limited doting, restricted thrall...
...maybe just smiled, but the kind of smile with no social consequence. The kind that doesn't care if anyone sees the imaginary upturned lips--that exists as an inward show of pure happiness...
During those long months, Shcharansky relates, he inevitably turned inward, and his sense of his own Jewishness grew. "Before my arrest . . . I was an assimilated Jew, as practically all Jews are in the Soviet Union. But I gradually came to realize that my denial of my national identity as a Jew was a self-deception...
...nation in Chile is a facade on every level. When we first drove in from the airport, we were shown houses damaged by a serious earthquake that hit Chile the year before last. There were holes in some of them, but most of the houses, our friends explained, fell inward, leaving the four outside walls standing with nothing left inside. Chile is also a four-walled facade, inside which terror strikes under the cover of night...