Word: outwardly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bulletin's pretensions to intellectual breadth are modest but persistent. There is a long-standing office joke about "The Frogs of Guatemala," a three-part article that ran in the Bulletin during the thirties. Bethell still tries to run at least one article in each issue that is "outward looking"--though probably not as far outward as the swamps of Guatemala...
Japan's new Overseas Youth Volunteers are Asia's first Peace Corpsmen, and though they so far number fewer than 100, they represent another indicator of Sato's outward thrust. Stationed from Southeast Asia to East Africa, they are skilled in auto repair and agriculture, nursing and nutrition, use their spare time to teach such Japanese native skills as origami and karate. Despite their Asian eyes and skin color, the Japanese Peace Corpsmen find it as challenging to relate to underdeveloped Asia as do their round-eyed American counterparts. For all their own appetite for sashimi...
Soon afterward, the moon's orbit began gradually spiraling outward to its present 239,000 miles. The tidal phenomena, though substantially reduced by distance, are still at work. The moon is still receding from the earth by about one inch every year. And the tidal braking effects are still at work increasing the length of the earth's day by .0018 seconds every century...
...bring ultimate self-awareness and the eventual abandonment of physical pleasures. The acquisition of wealth (artha) and the enjoyment of sense pleasure (kama) -- contained within the broad limits of a moral law (dharma) which protects the weaker from the stronger -- are all legitimate occupations of men on the outward path...
...Buddhists thought of beauty and personal love not only as evanescent feelings of the outward path -- as the Hindus saw them -- but as snares to be avoided. The Buddhists considered artists lowly people not even to be admitted to the ceremony of offering to the dead...