Word: insightful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Laughing Boy," Mr. LaFarge has searched out and found an elemental people. And again, he has caught, in his peculiarly vivid language, not only rudimentary characters but their lodestone environment. It is high tribute to say of him that he gives a New Englander clear, renewed insight into his surroundings and forebears...
...October fourteenth, I arrived at twelve-forty-five. This time it was: "Hurry up there! We don't want you fellow; you don't come to work, you just come to see the game!" What penetration, what philosophic insight into character...
...genial, unambitious man who never got over the surprise at finding himself president;" Wilson's "chief character-defect... (was) his failure to remember that opponents could be honest, decent men." Here, again, there is nothing new. But in these and other sketches, Mr. Agar shows a detachment and insight decidedly worthy of notice...
...particularly well informed about the profession of creating literature, notably of scenario writing. Primary sources in the art of converting novels into plays, and plays into movies he has acquired in quantity from Hollywood, and uses them to illustrate subtleties in transition which give his listeners a unique insight into the technique of dramatic production both in the cinema and on the legitimate stage. His knowledge in this department is extremely up-to-date, especially in the matter of modern stage sets...
...again inaugurating "The March of TIME." I think this program deserves a place in our American history. If this program could be recorded and released many years from now, when the men and things we now take for granted will be history, it would give our posterity a wonderful insight of our present civilization. . . . H. O. BOLDUAN Maple Lake, Minn. ... I salute your acumen and endorse your judgment. . . . NATHAN BOONE WILLIAMS Washington, D. C. . . . Permit me as one of your stockholders to extend my congratulations on your selection, as in my opinion and in that of many of my friends...