Word: outerness
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...outer" refers to a person who over the span of his career will spend time both in government--in law or academia, for instance--perhaps in several cycles. This kind of mobility of people happens for a variety of reasons and serves various purposes. But the Institute of Politics is the only educational institution I know of which was established with the explicit goal of serving the interests and needs of these people who want to work in more than one realm, for more than one institution, who desire engagement in public service and the "political life" across vocational demarcation...
...isolation they are in danger of becoming distorted by their own interests, their approach to life may be narrow, prejudiced. People who are exposed to others, to different ways of life than their own, are going to generally behave better in terms of their fellow man. The "in-and-outer," then, should have a unique capability to combat parochialism and to integrate diverse effort...
Space Reporters. For the U.S.'s John Willenbecher, 31, the extra half-dimension grows out of his enthusiasm for the space age. As a boy, he spent hours gazing through his telescope at the heavens; today his Manhattan studio is plastered with NASA moon photos and maps of outer space. His constructions are essentially intended as windows looking out of the world to a celestial view beyond. His Spheremusic #2, currently on display at New York's Whitney Museum, combines shining globes in concentric circles, like a baby planetarium. "The ball," he explains, "is the symbol...
...sections of a manned orbital-reconnaissance vehicle or even of a lunar landing craft that will be assembled in orbit before heading to the moon. The Proton on display in Paris consists of an 8-ft -diameter core section surrounded by a 14.8-ft.-diameter outer shell that could contain instrumentation and life-support systems. U.S. space experts suggest that the outer shell could serve as a shield to protect the craft against micrometeorite hits during prolonged or biting of the earth or a lunar trip...
...Beyond the ego" is where Coburn wants to be. He is currently co-producing and starring in The President's Analyst, but that, he allows, is just to satisfy the outer man. "We must be here for some reason, not just to make movies and lie in the sun. Man can't be finished. The cat is. The gorilla is. We must be here for a self-evolution, a development of the mind...