Word: outward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...characters are too busy striking attitudes to hit honest veins of emotion. His symbols have been known to multiply like fruit flies and almost as mindlessly. His chief danger is the unhealthy narcissism of most modern art. From the caves of Altamira to the Apollo Belvedere, pagan art looked outward and celebrated man. From the cathedral of Chartres to the music of Bach, religious art looked upward and glorified God. Modern art looks inward, contemplating the artist's ego, to the point of myopia and hallucination. Williams has often come close to drowning in introspection. But he has always...
...Geodetic Survey announced that Gnome's earth waves were recorded by seismographs near Tokyo, 6,000 miles away. Uppsala, Sweden (5,200 miles), Sodankyla, Finland (5,000 miles), and Fairbanks, Alaska (3,000 miles) also detected the explosion, and all the stations recorded the "first motion," the outward push that is characteristic of bomb waves and can distinguish them from natural earthquake waves...
...would be thoroughly trained in the esthetic meaning of integrity-the harmony of contrasting parts in one pleasing whole. They would practice and expect it in carpentry and cookery as well as architecture and mathematics. Instead of politely hoodwinking others, they would learn manners as basically self-respect, "an outward sign of inward devotion to what is true, just and appropriate to each occasion." Instead of toiling for money "to get out of work"-modern man's self-defeating treadmill-they would choose jobs entirely on the basis of "tasks that most urgently need to be done...
...Playwright Bolt has made a drama that relies on precision of language rather than eloquence, the prism of thought rather than the blade of action. Strangely and wondrously, for a Broadway stage, it is the mind that dances in Seasons; faith is the inner core, but intelligence is the outward proof of the hero's virtue. That a play so chaste in its lucidity should ultimately fill a playgoer's eyes with tears is partly a debt British Playwright Bolt owes to British Actor Paul Scofield...
This pattern gave Dr. Wynne his clue. Individuals in a family may show few or no outward signs of illness, but if their statements do not mesh rationally with one another's, the result is a "cognitive chaos" for the developing child, most sensitive between ages two and four. From a tape recording, he quoted a revealing example...