Word: outerness
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...Outer Limits...
...physical, you know, there's just so much to do and watch for." It was a large office/sanctum on the second floor of 395 Concord Avenue, carpeted, bookshelved, same fake wood paneling as everything else, spattered with flag plaques and Statue of Liberty trophies, with typewriters pittering in the outer offices, and a casual hum of secretaries. The jowled, paunchy, business-suited Robert Welch of the Society's official portrait would have fit right in here--a solid, substantial businessman you would want to make candy for your kids. But the frail, pale just-this-side-of-the-nursing-home...
...same both backward and forward, as in "Madam, I'm Adam." It came to him the next morning (palindrome), and with it the inspiration for this book-a reverse dictionary that alphabetically lists an array of meanings and then retrieves the word that has momentarily disappeared into the outer fog banks of the brain...
Advise and Consent. Among the best of American political movies. Preminger's film is far more exciting than Allen Drury's book. Drury, now a rightist so outre that he must dredge the outer reaches of the solar system for solutions to America's political problems, was at his best in his first novel, probably the best Washington novel of all time. The plot concerns the attempt of a dying President to put a supporter of his foreign policy into office as Secretary of State, and the moral issues that confront Senators when it turns out this otherwise wise...
...your money as well as a minimal amount of time and thinking and-presto! Relaxation and maybe even a little semi-enlightenment. This McDonald's of spirituality only seems to contribute more to the general plastic atmosphere around us. Must our inner experiences be as shallow as our outer ones...