Word: outwardly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...outward signs of opposition to busing in both cities, where black and white pupils are bused out of their neighborhoods under court-ordered desegregation plans, are still as strong as ever (TIME, Sept. 22). So many stayed out of Boston schools last week that for the first time the public school system contained more minority students than whites...
...capital of the activity is Aberdeen, an outward-looking city of 180,000 long accustomed to foreigners through export of herring and skills, both engineering and nautical: Aberdonians officered much of the Russian navy in 18th century czarist times. But nothing in Aberdeen's gregarious history has quite prepared it for the influx of hundreds of oil-related companies (300 have operations there) and thousands of oil workers from around the world, mainly the U.S. Last week 20,000 oil people were in town, including 7,000 visitors from as far away as Houston and Tokyo, for "Offshore Europe...
...most important signal, they said, was a change in the velocity of vibrations that pass through the earth's crust as a result of such disturbances as quakes, mining blasts or underground nuclear tests. Earth scientists have long known that tremors spread outward in two different types of seismic waves. P waves cause any rock in their path to compress and then expand in the same direction as the waves are traveling. S waves move the rock in a direction that is perpendicular to their path. Because P waves travel faster than S waves, they reach seismographs first...
Each of Calvino's parables comes from a single mold, and so do each of Marco Polo's cities. As the catalogue progresses, anachronisms begin to creep into the explorer's narrative, and his empire begins to expand outward in time as well as space. Kublai Kahn discovers this...
Those are things we can do at home, things entirely within our own control. As we look outward, can we form a coherent realistic view of that deeply complicated, enormously varied world out there? Equally difficult, can we arrive at a world view without casting it in concrete-can we accept that we will have to change it, can we learn to keep it up to date...