Word: insightfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...interpretations fielded in The New Republic, Partisan Review, Studies on the Left, and The New York Review of Books offers a complete and poignant record of intellectual opinion through the 60s. For that alone the book is worthwhile. And, while one can criticize Vogelgesang for not offering more insight into the very questions she raises, her effort to do so probably would have failed where her portrayal of the "long dark night" does not: The perspective and insight necessary to realistically assess the long term effect of the Intellectual Left's view of morality and its clash with the "alleged...
...long range planning report offers a tremendous insight into the dilemmas and alternatives facing Harvard and the community in relation to their physical environments. That is precisely what Daly, Goyette, Donald C. Moulton, assistant to Daly, and Bose say was its objective. It sets a series of basic planning assumptions that Harvard will follow in any alternatives it chooses and establishes precedents for land-use and acquisition...
...hanging in the Drawing Study and Balcony. The term drawing is being used to cover a variety of media--watercolor, acrylic and acrylic air-brush--on paper. The works, both abstract and realistic, are small and intimate in feeling and vary greatly in quality. Still, the show is an insight into some of the types of art being done today and an excellent reason to visit the Drawing Study, one of the Fogg's best-kept secrets...
...PIECES of modern drama approach The Threepenny Opera's degree of achievement on any of the several levels on which the play is totally triumphant. Bertolt Brecht's writing is an extraordinary synthesis of wit, imagination, political commitment, and human insight. Kurt Weill's brash, deceptively melodic music intensifies the force of the drama spectacularly. No adaptation could be more faithful than Mark Blitzstein's to the atmosphere Brecht and Weill sought to create, truer to their message or more sympathetic to their dramatic approach. But if the drama is to succeed on stage, these achievements must be equalled...
...arrival of a sofa in a lower-middle-class Dublin household or the cleaning of a carpet (one with big pink roses on it) into an extraordinary celebration of family love. She does this by a steady accumulation of detail and alternate flashes of passionate statement and raw insight. The accomplishment is formidable-something few writers attempt without sounding precious, dull, or both...