Word: outwardly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Under Chou's direction, China once more turned outward. Ambassadors
Valiance & Tenacity. Like Proust's madeleine, the tea cake that summoned up for the narrator of Remembrance of Things Past his childhood world of Combray, Follies has its touchstone of memory. The interiorized past is brought to life by an outward object, one of those old, ornate Broadway theaters. Designer Boris Aaronson has made of it a poignantly dilapidated shell where the spectral applause of a thousand opening nights hangs palpably in the air. The showplace is in the demolition phase, as are the people who enter it: chorus girls back for "a first and last reunion...
Most scientists now agree that the universe began with the cataclysmic explosion of an extremely dense primordial atom, and that the billions of star-filled galaxies, including the Milky Way, are still rushing outward from the original big bang. The speed of that expansion, astronomers have determined, is decreasing-slowed by the gravitational pull of the galaxies upon each other. What cannot be explained, however, is that the calculated mass of the universe's galaxies is only about one-tenth the amount required to produce that rate of deceleration. Where is the missing mass...
Campbell was in the center of the main tornado that tore a half-mile-wide swath through Inverness. For perhaps a minute, he sat in suspended motion as much of the world about him caved in or exploded outward. "One house suddenly came apart like a dollhouse," he recalls. "The roof flew up, the walls spread out, and I could see two elderly persons, colored folks, crouched inside. Then everything sprang right back on top of them and they disappeared...
...testimony is both graphic and moving, and it takes two forms. There is an outward and an inward questioning, both of which led to the self-proclaimed "radicalization" of the defendants. The outward questioning consists of an account of conditions in other countries for which the Catonsville Nine hold the U.S. morally culpable. For example, Defendant George Mische testifies...