Word: inwards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...possible indication of a significant shift in American thinking. Until now, the U.S. Administration had emphasized that, as much as possible, governments should maintain a hands-off stance toward international finance. Said a top West German official: "We welcome the change from what has so far been an inward-looking U.S. policy to an outward-looking...
Reagan and company hoped that their reputation as hard-liners would nudge the Soviets toward more cautious, pragmatic and inward-looking leaders than those who have ruled the U.S.S.R. until now. Richard Pipes, a Harvard historian who has served as the Administration's senior Kremlinologist, is convinced that a struggle has been going on for some time between young Turks who advocate domestic economic reform and an old guard that wants to continue the traditional pattern of compensating for internal failures by pursuing foreign successes, often in the form of military adventures...
...solitude and weakness in numbers. This is the generation of impermanence--of childless marriages and unmarried couples who "live together" out of inertia. The threat of nuclear war hangs over them perennially. The men and women in Dancing Girls respond not to each other, but only to their inward selves and how they might profit from someone else. In one story a man resists a women's advances by telling himself. "Not yet. I can do without it I don't need...
GLSA co-president Robert Mealy '85 says the group has to some extent "turned inward," stabilizing and concentrating more attention than before on enriching the life of the gay community. Efforts so far have been paying off; membership in the now almost evenly gay and lesbian group is up, and more gay freshmen and off-campus students know of its existence. "It's a regathering of strength; we're feeling our way," Mealy says, adding, "There was a real need felt last year for more community...
...think I could stay here for another year. Four years in these red-brick Georgian rabbit hatches can really socialize you, make you depend too much on the community for stimulation. I think we all need some time alone, to allow us to do some inward thinking about goals and projects...