Word: insightfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After reading your harsh appraisal of the federal civil service, I was reminded of M. Beaumarchais's classic insight in The Barber of Seville: "Judging by the virtues expected of a servant, does your Excellency know many masters who would be worthy of valets...
...crimsoned by the blood of a lamb he has just slaughtered. He has not been washed clean in the blood of the lamb, for the animal was maggoty, like the family. Despite this strained symbolic ending, Shepard has fashioned a play of eloquent intensity, whirlwind farce and resonantly poignant insight. The cast all get A's. The ensemble work they do can not be matched off-Broadway...
...Educational Affairs Division of the Harvard-Radcliffe Black Students Association (HRBSA) will hold a ten-week "Political Education Study Group" with 20 local high school students that is designed to provide insight into the political, economic and cultural experiences of black Americans...
Presumably, however, Harvard students have attained a level of sophistication that allows them to make certain decisions concerning their own lives with more insight than members of the Faculty could; to suggest otherwise seems condescending and arrogant on the part of Harvard professors...
...valid and permanently binding" version of what the New Testament teaches, "namely [that] in Jesus Christ, God Himself has entered into a human history." All the dogmas and investigations of the mystery of God in Christ, he concedes, "come up against an insuperable limit of thought, speech and sympathetic insight." To Kasper, however, this limitation is actually "something extremely positive, not darkness but excess of light, dazzling to our eyes...