Word: insightful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Radioed Leader Papanin to Professor Otto Yulievich Schmidt, hardy, hairy chairman of the Great Northern Sea Route Administration, who was on a third icebreaker not yet insight: ". . . Wewerenot anxious for a moment about our fate because we knew that our mighty fatherland which sent forth its sons would never desert them. The warm care and attention of the party and government of dear Comrade Stalin, of the whole Soviet people, uninterruptedly maintained in us the conviction to accomplish successfully all our work...
...Herndon was also a provincial lawyer, cranky and crude, unable to develop his ideas systematically. Consequently when he came to write his own biography in 1888, he leaned on a young collaborator named Jesse Weik to put it into publishable shape. The book contained enough of Herndon's insight and first-hand knowledge to make it a masterly record, but Weik picked and chose over Herndon's materials as he saw fit; the publishers revised the manuscript, and 70-year-old Herndon got only $300 for his share of the work and for his collection of Lincoln documents...
...every phase of relationship by shibboleths, superstition, fear. Produced in Poland with native players as passionately sincere as if their own souls were involved. The Dybbuk presents a painstaking picture of the weary search for eternal peace by a people for whom the earth holds little, affords an insight into the absurd involvements that are the accretions of simple faith...
When Ernest Hemingway created his monosyllabic prize fighters, gangsters, bull fighters, he gave U. S. writers a powerful insight into the workings of the minds of criminals, fighting men and tough characters in general. Imitators who borrowed his peculiar style soon burned themselves out, but the full impact of Hemingway's major achievement is just beginning to make itself felt in U. S. fiction. Last week a young Arizona novelist showed what happens when the legendary heroes of the Old West-men of the cast of Wyatt Earp or Doc Holliday-are examined with an understanding gained from Hemingway...
...departing from purely routine affairs of his department and daring to interpret sickness in terms of underlying anxiety and worry, Dr. Bock in his Report to the President has shown his insight into student problems and has gone far in implying a solution to the factors of modern civilization as they threaten to impede Harvard's progress. His words are proof, if proof be needed, that the University's attitude toward the undergraduate must change with changing times if he is fully to benefit from what the College has to offer...