Word: insightfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...committee and the city have been pleased by the performance of the newly appointed superintendent of schools, William Lannon. Glenn S. Koocher '71, a Convention '75-endorsed incumbent, was emphatic in his praise for Lannon: "He's simply an excellent superindendent, with an excellent background, and excellent insight." Lannon is a newcomer to the Cambridge school system and his popular acceptance as superintendent may be viewed as something of a victory for the progressives, who urged his hiring after a search committee had said that no equally qualified candidate could be found in Cambridge...
...fired for dating a disgruntled minority shareholder who Yale thought was "possessed by demons." On one occasion Yale came upon two engineers trying to heal an ailing computer. Says Yale: "I placed my hands on the computer, made a silent prayer and asked God to give the engineers insight to fix the computer." Yale claims that it started...
...slow day Western history might be reduced to a tale of two apples. The first comes wrapped in art and myth: Eve took the bite and mankind got its eviction notice from Paradise. The second is baked in its own apocryphal jacket: Isaac Newton got his deep insight into gravity when struck by a falling fruit. Result: a new brand of physics that relocated us even farther from the godhead-and a reverse anthropomorphism that saw the human body as a machine. Today Adam Smith implies the West has an urge to work its way back, past technology, past...
...fighter for thermonuclear disarmament and democracy in the U.S.S.R. The citation by the Nobel committee in Oslo called him "a firm believer in the brotherhood of man, in genuine coexistence, as the only way to save mankind ... As a nuclear physicist," the citation continued, "he has, with his special insight and responsibility, been able to speak out against the dangers inherent in the armaments race between states." The five-member Nobel committee, appointed by the Norwegian Parliament, reportedly rejected 50 other candidates under consideration, including Finnish President Urho Kekkonen, for whom Soviet officials have been campaigning...
Chief among the accused were John Stewart Service and John Paton Davies. Both had been the children of Protestant missionaries near the southwestern city of Chengtu. Both spoke impeccable Chinese. The dispatches they sent during the war are now regarded as models of probity and insight, cited at length in most histories of modern China...