Word: insightfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that we go back to the past because its quarrels remained unresolved, and its dreams unfulfilled, and we have inherited its disorder. If we respond to this disorder by deploring the weakness and blindness of those who left it to us, we will miss our chances for strength and insight. "History never confesses," wrote Merleau-Ponty, "not even her lost illusions, but neither does she dream of them again." ( Signs, p. 35) When we discover that we persist in those illusions, and when we stop asking the past to condemn itself and justify our present, then...
...turning seasons, it is probably about now. Astronomers put it sooner-when the sun starts north, but before Christmas. Gardeners might date it later on, when the ground begins to thaw. But since 45 B.C., most people have gone along with Julius Caesar, who with more psychological insight than astronomical accuracy placed it at the day now called January...
...Contours, Williams pushed the origins of the imperial ideology back into the earliest days of the Republic. In The Roots of the Modern American Empire, he broadens this insight and creates a new "consensus" view of American social and economic history. As he told an audience at Harvard last year, he has found that American farmers first fully enunciated the rationale of marketplace expansion as a necessary condition for democracy and prosperity. The agrarians, between 1860 and 1893, coherently argued that such expansion "extended the freedom of all men." Their conception was adopted by industrialists in the crisis...
...offender is generally an individual under pressure, anxious about financial or domestic troubles. He is so wrapped up in his own worries that he cannot comprehend the reasons for society's concern with drunken driving. Because of this picture, Stewart's approach now includes more counseling. "Sympathy, insight and patience," he says, "are the keys to working with a person in this state of mind." So far, the project has been an impressive success. Of 2,000 graduates since 1966, fewer than ten of them have been rearrested in Phoenix on a D.W.I, charge. The American Automobile Association...
...necessary monster" because in some recurring way "it appeals to the human imagination." The book, moreover, provides an unprcs-sured look at the tastes and concerns that Borges began to develop as a child browsing in his father's well-stocked library in Buenos Aires, and an insight into the grotesque, haunting and often touching forms man has made of his fears and infatuations...