Word: outward
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Working on it was one of the most grueling experiences in all of our lives, somewhat comparable to an Outward Bound program," said Greaney. "But we think our little big book of fun will be fantastically successful...
...Republic, argues that the "workfare" programs instituted by many Governors (including Cuomo) should be radically strengthened through a strict requirement that welfare recipients take jobs. Nicholas Lemann, in an incisive series in the Atlantic, analyzes how the migration of poor blacks into the inner cities and the outward migration of middle-class blacks have created a destructive ghetto culture. It can only be broken, Lemann argues, by providing public-works jobs that get underclass blacks out of the ghetto...
Peter Dickinson is that rare novelist who is equally at home with the inward stare of psychological fiction and the outward thrust of political commentary. That duality is reflected in two themes that reverberate through most of his books: the impact of a family's guilty past and the doomed meeting of the industrialized and the underdeveloped worlds. Both themes merge, stunningly, in Tefuga, the story of a British journalist's trip to Africa to make a docudrama about his parents--a diplomat and his young artist wife whose well-meant meddling provoked a long-ago international incident. The journalist...
...friends say, so I stand up and put on the outward smile again, as if I had finally stoically accepted the 8-2 opening day loss that deep inside seems so insignificant in the proverbial grand scheme of things...
...young bohemian's attentions are directed at her. Added to this mix-up are cameo appearances by Victorian notables like Walter Pater, Charles Darwin, Anthony Trollope and Thomas Huxley. But beneath this sparkling surface roil undercurrents of genuine pain. Nettleship, a figure of fun in all his balding, pedantic outward manifestations, knows himself well enough to realize that he has botched his life and that the gloom he suffered when he could no longer believe in God "earned him the hatred of both his children." His wife Charlotte is scarcely less pathetic, as she stares "down the wrecked vista...