Word: outwardly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...calls for social change, demands for changes in foreign policy, or rhetorical attacks on the nation's leaders. Radically, to the contrary, this Class Day may mark the beginning of the admitted complacency stage of undergraduate life here at Harvard--when seniors have resigned themselves to inward reflections and outward comedy...
Charlotte's fear, Grace Strasser-Mendana tells us, is that of looking back. The axiom, "Remember Lot's Wife, avoid the backward glance," dictated Charlotte's life until Marin disappeared. And then despite her outward ignorance of the world around her--her desire for this child like protection from life--the past is unwillingly thrust upon her as an explanation for the present complications. But for a person who has always believed that things work out fine in the end, the rising to the surface of past failures is the ultimate blow. "It wasn't the way she thought...
...they grew older the family learned all the nasty details of the world that the wall of Irish Catholicism had always been able to keep out. Divorce and bankruptcy plagued old Tom Murray's grandchildren, and they no longer looked to the Church for comfort. Staring outward at a world of Wall Street maneuvering and St. Tropez vacations and Hollywood glamor, they abandoned the neat self-centered universe their parents had created for them. But in the process they abandoned that odd combination of unbounded energy, unshakeable vanity and unquestioning faith that had held the Irish together for so many...
Even worse than Rosovsky's disregard for student needs in the substance of his plan is his concern only for the outward appearance of student consultation in the proposal and its eventual implementation. Although Fox submitted the plan last January for University-wide discussion, Rosovsky approved it last week with very few changes, making the almost two months of undergraduate-faculty debate on the issue seem unimportant. In refusing to seriously consider plans for major renovations of the Quad and the whole housing system, Rosovsky made clear his lack of regard for the opinions of Quad students, who have long...
...weal. Tuberculosis prevented him from using the M.D. he earned in 1941, but The Moviegoer (1962), Percy's first novel and a National Book Award winner, demonstrated his remarkable diagnostic skill. In it and two later novels, he specialized in asking probing questions: Why are people with every outward trapping of happiness so miserable? Where and why does it hurt...