Word: insightfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Warburg said that hearing McCarthy's poetry gave him some insight into "the ideology behind his political strategy...
...THIS, Drury still made a great effort to hammer out a respectable book. A God Against the Gods is the product of years of meticulous research, as the impressive bibliography at the end of the volume attests. From an intellectual standpoint, the book offers fascinating insight into the details of ancient Egyptian customs and the intricacies of dynastic politics, which the author has adapted deftly to his main theme. And Drury has clearly not lost his old gift for sustained narrative that salvaged some of his previous works. An accomplished literary craftsman if nothing else, he has skillfully worked this...
This week, TIME provides an insight into the rise and fall of Mme. Mao, with excerpts from an upcoming book that is one of the most revealing portraits of a Communist Chinese leader ever to reach the West. Comrade Chiang Ch'ing will be published by Little, Brown and Co. next month. Its author, Roxane Witke, had 60 hours of interviews with Mme. Mao during the summer...
...sensitive girl who falls into hooking" in Jockeys, a new play about a Puerto Rican jockey on the way up. To research the part, Pam grilled a prostitute acquaintance for details of the life. She even slipped out between rehearsals to Manhattan's raunchy Times Square to gain insight into the local working girls at their trade-and to have her picture taken...
...wish to become obsolete." There is little danger of that, for Jones applies the same tactic to his teaching. Says he: "The largest part of teaching law is learning law. Then it's essentially a matter of reconstructing how I was able to gain a particular insight or understand a particular problem, and then presenting it to the students in a way that will enable them to get over the same difficulties. The best way to teach law is to have students who are asking the right questions. I press students to perform at their highest capacity...