Word: outwardly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Comprising a cloistered collection of crotchety individualists who mortally dread insecurity, the normal U. S. campus resembles an inactive volcano. Beneath its outward calm there rumble, seethe and surge perpetual gratings of opinion, ripples of backbiting and intrigue, tides of hate and fear. With fortunate exceptions the instructor fears and resents the department head, who fears and resents the dean, who fears and resents the president, who fears and resents the trustees. Most pedagogs work off their passions in private talk, present smiling exteriors to superiors. But occasionally one stiffens his spine, talks back or speaks out in defiance...
...beautiful women of antiquity, and how would they be troubled by this beauty, into which the soul with all its maladies has passed! All the thoughts and experience of the world have etched and moulded there, in that which they have of power to refine and make expressive the outward form, the animalism of Greece, the lust of Rome, the mysticism of the middle age with its spiritual ambition and imaginative loves, the return of the Pagan world, the sins of the Borgias. She is older than the rocks among which she sits; like the vampire, she has been dead...
Change to Charm. The outward signs of that change are marked. The Senator was loud, rough, profane. He still is, by nature, but nowadays as he passes through the corridors of the Senate Office Building, he tries to be charming and affable to all comers. He used to run around to his quota of parties, but nowadays he has little time for such gay amusement. Though he has not yet become a teetotaler, he is no longer the Huey Long of the Sands Point washroom. This change is not reform; it is ambition, guided by a keen sense of self...
...many an Anglo-Catholic desires an archbishop simply for the dignity and exaltation of the Church. However exalted it might be inwardly, the Church would nevertheless be obliged to accept the outward trappings of an archbishop-call him "Your Grace," give him a primatial cross, add a ten-tasseled heraldic hat and pallium to the insignia of his see, surround him with ten deacons of honor, swing a censer nine times at him in church and officially call him "Most Reverend" instead of "Right Reverend"-the last a practice which Anglo-Catholics long ago adopted...
...meaning "reason" "regulates the outward form of that particular action...