Word: insightfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Marshall Plan, the firing of General MacArthur, and the 1948 election campaign. Miller emphasizes Truman as an individual, his relationships with other important personalities, and his feelings about important decisions he had to make. It is this material which makes the book interesting. There is no new historical insight, nor is there any surprising or previously unpublished information of any significance. But just to have Truman say of Douglas MacArthur, "there are times when I'm afraid he wasn't right in his head," or call Richard Nixon, "a shifty-eyed, goddam liar," is enjoyable in itself...
...Harry Truman who emerges from this book is an honest, well-intentioned, intelligent man with a great deal of insight into human character. Although somewhat limited by his background, as his continued references to "niggers" indicate, he had a solid progressive outlook on politics and on society. After learning in the past year of the way the executive branch has operated under President Nixon since 1969, it is a relief to read these interviews with Harry Truman--a down-to-earth man who did not get carried away by the grandeur and power of his office...
...sense of their own uniqueness. Poet MacDiarmid recalls a statement by Robert Louis Stevenson that "there are no adjacent peoples in the world so utterly and inalterably opposed to each other as the Scots and the English." To MacDiarmid the lesson to be drawn from Stevenson's insight is this: "All I want to do is widen the difference. Scotland must now play its part." Ever growing numbers of Scotsmen agree...
Some former students occasionally dig out their old seminar notebooks for insight into Kissinger's current policies...
...playing field, even at the pong machine. The person's involvement in sport offers an opportunity for self-expression, for self-mastery, and for uniting form and substance. Students demonstrate authenticity in talks over a beer or joint, when one can see expressions of friendship, exchange of insight, and discussion of meaning. Again, in music practice rooms, and in House basements, students find an outlet for expression in refined forms by self-expression...