Word: outerness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Theory of the Center," a popular conception of modern prophets, describes consciousness as starting from a central point (the ego) and working towards larger horizons. Krishnamurti takes issue with the basic premise of this theory (the distinction between inner and outer worlds) and insists that "if you try to expand the center, you remain a captive of its boundaries. No matter how far you go, your consciousness will always be limited...
...awareness" dissolves all boundaries. The distinction between self and the outer world disappears, and with it, all conflict. (For people who are unaware, conflict is the rule of life. Men are filled with anxiety, they fight each other and suffer. For them the world is a set of grueling competitions, a constant struggle for self-esteem and power...
...steadily worsening U.S. -Soviet relations, it looked as if Khrushchev's successors may have at last told Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko to get off and hitch up. With the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. already moving toward the conclusion of a New York-to-Moscow air pact and an outer-space treaty, the habitually dour Gromyko astounded newsmen by emerging from a State Department dinner with the observation that "both countries are striving to reach agreement" on measures to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons...
...Estate. Thus, the U.S. last week lifted export restrictions to Russia and Eastern Europe on more than 400 nonstrategic items.* This week a team of Pan American World Airways negotiators heads for Moscow to work out final details on an agreement for Moscow-New York flights. Talks on an outer-space treaty may be nearing completion. The two governments have even reopened the prickly question of replacing inadequate embassies in each other's capitals: the U.S. has tentatively offered a 13-acre plot in Northwest Washington, while the Russians have tentatively offered a central location in Moscow...
Life among the humanoids of outer space-if such ever come to light-could not be more remote from the modern world than the bizarre and ceremonious existence of Louis XIV. With learning and flair, Nancy Mitford, the biographer of Voltaire and Madame de Pompadour, employs an elegant and aphoristic style to match the complexity and splendor of her subject: the building of Versailles, and its principal inhabitant, the Sun King, revered as a demigod by his 20 million subjects...