Word: insightfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...primitiveness. This impersonality signals a departure from Mitchell's previous lyrical material, in which lover relationships crystallized in her own experience, her laments, and her hopefulness. With The Hissing of Summer Lawns she is attempting much more ambitious poetry than ever before--more striking images and a broader cutting insight...
...Neil decided to continue his affiliation with the hoop sport by becoming an accredited basketball referee. For three seasons, Buddy donned the zebra suit and blew the whistle, in the process gaining valuable insight into the many intricate facets of the game. O'Neil's calm demeanor on the Harvard bench towards officials can no doubt be attributed to his initial career on the other side of the fence...
Some of the writers eschew straightforward prose for witty, self-consciously absurd jottings that don't give as much insight into Cunningham as into the ambience surrounding him. In "Where Are We Eating? And What Are We Eating?" John Cage catalogs the company's favorite haunts from Brownsville to Bombay. A typical snippet...
...patterns and institutions--unhappy love relationships, psychoanalysis, various combinations of sedatives and stimulants, an acute sensitivity to the sources of one's own pain, and a vivid fantasy life. In between, sometimes in the very midst of periods of depression, the neurotic is capable of remarkable insight into his behavior and its motivation, and yet feels himself entirely incapable of change...
...separate from the world and above it, or is he present in every part of it? Religion's end, like that of politics, must be unity of the universal and the particular, through the adoption of entirely new kinds of theology. But Unger can offer no further insight into religion, because God, if he exists, has not revealed himself. The book ends eerily: "But our days pass and still we do not know you fully. Why then do you remain silent? Speak...