Word: insightfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lunar specimen yet obtained. Radioactive dating tests made by Caltech Geologist Gerald Wasserburg indicated that the rock was formed 4.6 billion years ago-around the time that the moon and the planets arc believed to have been created. Scientists hope that further examination of the rock will provide new insight into the formation of the solar system...
Richard Zorza's contribution to this ever-widening genre of strike literature hits upon a precarious balance between these equally undesirable poles. As an active member of the moderate Memorial Church group. Zorza must certainly have gained insights and observations that could contribute to a sounder understanding of why the strike failed to gather momentum and fell apart the way it did. Most of that insight, however, is forever buried beneath his swollen, badly cliched rhetoric...
...sought to sell out the strike, and Steven Kelman's contention that the moderates were mindless running dogs for SDS instigators, it is refreshing to hear a response from the moderate faction that rises to the level of coherent political analysis. And Zorza offers a vital yet rarely grasped insight into the thinking of the conservative academic...
Finally, Mr. President, permit me to suggest that you consider meeting, on an individual and conversational basis, with members of your Cabinet. Perhaps through such conversations we can gain greater insight into the problems confronting us alt, and most important, into the solutions of these problems...
Kennedy said. "I've met with a few student leaders, and I've got a terrific insight into the intensity of student involvement. I think personally that now's the time to get something through Congress. You gentlemen have extraordinary contacts: you could work wonders." There ensued a long discussion of tactics. Kennedy said the important thing was to get as many votes as possible for the Hatfield-Mc-Govern amendment now, even if it loses. "We can work around the gymnastics of letting people change their minds later." As the names flew around the room, Bator and Yarmolinksi...