Word: insightfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...self-concerned radical. Still, in spite of the fact that it is straightforwardly facile, Mrs. Romm's commentary describes thoroughly- at times, sensationally- the development and growth of the radical movement during the past five years. Her smoothly flowing prose often becomes intensely descriptive, grappling momentarily with acutely perceptive insight. Describing the revolt against the technologized state for example, she notes Edmund Wilson's observation that "in times of social disorder literature becomes gothic." Thus, she writes, life is becoming macabre and grotesque as men sense frighteningly that their spell-binding super-technology, with its awesome unworking complexity, is rendering...
...Grapefruit is, rather, the droppings of a group of freshmen sitting one night around an ash tray. They are stoned and each now and then utters things which are astounding in their insight. OH-WOW's abound; each is fascinated with each one's wit; life becomes a trip of insights. In Yoko's book, these insights are called pieces; they are grouped into sections ; and, small wonder, the sections together are termed Grapefruit . Moreover, each piece is of the type so common to stone sessions: the instruction . The instruction is the message one pens to oneself when stoned...
...United Press, and there he stayed to take the measure of six Presidents. His daily reporting was characterized by speed and accuracy, and his books (A President is Many Men, 1948, A President's Odyssey, 1961, The Good New Days, 1962) were filled with anecdote and insight. Smith's highest honor, a 1964 Pulitzer Prize, was won for his swift, lucid reporting in the pandemonium-filled minutes following the assassination of John F. Kennedy...
Perilous Adventure. Lonergan himself insists that "there is no such thing as a Lonerganian"; by its very nature, he says, his method "destroys totalitarian ambitions." Insight is "a way of asking people to discover in themselves what they are." Yet the very openness of Lonergan's method, notes Utrecht University Theologian Henri Nouwen, makes his approach to self-realization a perilous personal adventure. The answer to intellectual blindness-or scotosis, as Lonergan calls it by its Greek name-is that each human being must lay himself open to the sheer terror of selfdiscovery...
FATHER LONERGAN is known for dense, often excruciatingly abstruse prose. Yet somehow he can turn a masterly phrase when the right insight inspires him and on occasion be not only aphoristic but almost poetic. A sampling, beginning with a passage from the preface to Insight that seems prophetic in describing some of the ailments of contemporary society...