Word: outwards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Concluded the U.C.L.A. researchers: "Our impression is that the very development of cancer in man might conceivably result from the physiological effects of inner stress which has remained unresolved by either outward action or successful adaptation...
...stop smoking, his advice was: make a clean break, with no attempt at tapering off-"The best way to stop is to stop." But, said Cameron, he did not consider the Hammond-Horne theory entirely proved (neither do they). He added: "Personally, I believe that a life of outward productiveness and inward serenity is more important than how long life is." There were other skeptics. "If this were spinach instead of cigarettes, I think people would be easier to convince...
Only by small and frivolous outward signs can the world measure the Kremlin's inner struggle for power. But what makes the frivolous fundamental is the importance the Communist leaders themselves attach to pride of place: Who stands nearest the center atop Lenin's tomb? Who waves to the mob? Who doesn't? (On May Day, only Nikita Khrushchev did; on May 30, Khrushchev and Malenkov, in identical suits, waved identical hats...
...second reaction to the pressures of anti-intellectualism is that the academic world, instead of turning outward to fight, has often turned in upon itself, seeking refuge in the collective sympathy of its own kind. This attitude produces a result more subtle than a refusal to testify and is insidious because of this subtlety. It is always easier to conform than to take an individual stand, and now it is easy to blame conformity on the so-called "climate of fear." University administrators, men of the academic world themselves, say that they would not fire this or that professor were...
...attempt in some respects as naive as training a telephoto lens on the firmament in the hope of catching a candid shot of God. And yet, Director Robert Bresson is a man whose errors are more interesting than the hits of most other directors. In this French film, the outward and visible symbols he finds for the inward and spiritual states of the famous (1937) Georges Bernanos novel are vivid enough to excite the intellect, though they do not always agitate the heart...