Word: outerness
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...ties" and generational memory may go a long way toward explaining how blacks fell together during the early Civil Rights Movements. And "fictive" kin adoption may shed light on why black children in the North still grow up knowing any number of "uncles" and "aunties" who belong to the outer reaches of their kinship network or are not among their blood relatives at all. To forge these links slaves may have been obliged to lay low for a century--the Gutman report obviously places family concern above class militancy--but the life that slaves made...
Caste System. In Plagues and Peoples McNeill, who won the 1964 National Book Award for The Rise of the West, offers a provocative medical man's view of why the world took some of the turns it did. Most writers figure that Rome succumbed to outer Goths and inner decadence. McNeill maintains that a series of epidemics-measles, smallpox, plague-so depleted the empire's population that by the middle of the 3rd century A.D. it was no longer able to resist the barbarians. Disease, rather than religion, also lay at the roots of India's caste...
...President kept his emotions in check and his thoughts closely guarded. He watched the returns from the second-floor living room and den, sipping drinks and dining on a buffet of beef stroganoff, seafood creole, fresh fruit and pastries. Surrounded by his family and a few friends, he exhibited outer confidence. Yet the mood of the gathering was apprehensive. After 3 a.m., before the latest return had gone sour and Carter had congratulated him for a superb campaign, the man who had come so heartbreakingly close went to sleep without conceding his loss. His aides insisted he still thought...
SCIENCE CENTER--The architectural atrocity is not modeled after a spider, or a lunar module, or any manner of unidentifiable creatures from outer space. It is actually an enlarged facsimile of a Polaroid Land Camera, honoring the man who donated a fortune to build the science center. A rare breed of benefactor, Land asked that the monstrosity not bear his name, so that no one could identify him as the donor...
...mysticism. "My inclination is to resist the imagination when it operates in this way," he writes. "Yet I, too, feel that the light of Jerusalem has purifying pow ers and filters the blood and the thoughts. I don't forbid myself the reflection that light may be the outer garment...