Word: insightful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...delighted to read that my favorite ball club, New York's own Mets, had won yesterday, defeating Chicago's Ursa Minor (sorry, Cubs) in a thrill-packed game. Once again, the winning run had been driven in by Darryl Strawberry. To those without mythic insight, Strawberry is just a tall, moody rightfielder who wallops long, high-arcing home runs. To me, though, Darryl seemed like the incarnation of . . . of . . . of Nyamia Ama, the all-powerful storm god of Senegal. Nyamia Ama is said to be somewhat remote and invisible. (Well, sometimes Strawberry doesn't like interviews either...
...first taxi ride to the Archivo General, for instance, brought me some insight into the problem. I had seen the name Salinas all over the walls and posters of the city, and I wondered why he seemed to be receiving such widespread support. When I asked my cab driver, who went by the name Sr. Rodolfo, if Carlos Salinas de Gotari was the official candidate of the PRI, he informed me that well, yes, he was the candidate of the PRI, but more than that, he would be the next President of Mexico...
...wasn't speaking to the American Legion," Reagan says. "I wasn't speaking to the Chamber of Commerce. I was trying to explain America and what we are all about." In his speech to Moscow's cultural elite, he gave new insight into why he finds himself breaking out of his stereotype as an unvarnished foe of what he once called the "evil empire." "In the movie business, actors often get what we call typecast," he said. "The studios come to think of you as playing certain kinds of roles, and no matter how hard you try, you just...
...burdens. They also recognize the fact their population will likely remain small for many years, as the pool of Black and Hispanic graduate students is disproportionately tiny. But until Harvard is willing to lessen the load minorities face, it will not succeed in attracting faculty members who can provide insight into both new and established fields, professors...
Despite the packaging, posturing and pretensions that went into my candidacy for the Class of '88, the powers that were at Harvard received at least two bits of disturbing insight into my psyche circa 1984. Now I'm not proud of this, but I filled in the last question on the application form. That was the one which asked if we had any special talents or qualities which the admissions committee should be aware of before passing judgment on our young personages...