Word: insightful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...published and unpublished poems are here gathered together for the first time, belonged to that second generation of modern poets whose work has been so largely influenced by Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot. He brought to the study of the French symbolists and the later Elizabethans an original insight of his own, however, and his work is in a sense and extension of his. Immediate predecessors, original in technique, deeply American in content...
...real start as a professional factfinder. He conducted similar crime investigations in Missouri, Illinois, Virginia. Pennsylvania, Connecticut. Michigan. California. Indiana. Later his service on the New York State Crime Commission gave him the final stamp of authority as an expert on the administration of criminal justice. Yet despite his insight into conditions, he declares: "I feel no call to remedy evils. I have not the slightest urge to be a reformer. Social workers make me very weary. They have no sense of humor." In 1923 he transferred as an associate professor of government to Columbia Uni- versity where...
Affording the student interested in Mathematics ample opportunity to think for himself, this course in Mechanics given by Professor Osgood is one in which native ingenuity and mechanical insight are most useful; there are plenty of opportunities to develop latent reasoning powers in a subject which is altogether concrete. A student planning to enter any branch of engineering or physics will never regret the knowledge of elementary mechanics that may be gained in this course. Instruction is sometimes uninspiring, but the training and subject matter compensate for this defect...
...than can be gained as a member of a good-will tour meeting city fathers and making speeches at banquets to get beyond the superficial aspects of any environment. A book which bites deep into the core of a country's spirit must be written by a man with insight and sympathy, and, above all, long familiarity with his subject. W. H. Hudson lived in Patagonia as a child and knew the Pampas through and through, even if Guedalla does accuse him of making it a vast bird sanctuary. Lafcadio Hearn knew Japan in the same way. Mr. Guedalia understands...
...oasis" reveals a rather unfortunate point of view. The student abroad has occupied, in the main, a liberal and an enviable position; his temporary isolation gives him a real stimulus in the fine are of transcending barriers of nationality. Not only language, but inter-racial insight and a grasp of a foreign culture have been the fruits of a conscientious attempt on the part of the student at self dependence. There have been, of course, men whose thirst for Keokuk or Hartford was so great as to handicap them even in their work, yet for the most part the disease...