Word: insightfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...TIME before its publication in June by Little, Brown & Co. TIME Diplomatic Editor Jerrold L. Schechter, our Moscow bureau chief from 1968 to 1970, wrote the book's introduction. "The tapes," Schechter says, "are a unique contribution to our political and historical legacy. They contain not only an insight into Khrushchev's mind and the minds of the men around him but also a large part of the story behind the headlines of the past ten years. History and journalism are never very far apart...
...aged Chicano says, necessity can teach more than a year at a university--The "Old Ones" give us insight into our lives, as well as their own. A great sense of joy pervades this book. Even though there are two languages here, there is only one soul. The old clap for the young, and the young clap back...
...Hope for the Best, and Parlor Story were his big hits. Now he splits his time between his editorial duties at The University, a Princeton quarterly, and the playwrighting courses he gives to undergraduates there. This week he has been at Harvard to offer benevolent advice and the salty insight of a rugged theater veteran to the Harvard cast of his new play Hardesty Park. The play opened last night in the Adams House dining room for its "pre-Broadway...
BERTOLUCCI REMOVED the psychological insight from Dostoevsky's story, using an actor whose face reveals nothing and attempting a political statement contrary to his romantic nature. This has been a major problem in Bertolucci's other adaptations. Before the Revolution (1963) covered over Stendahl's psychological crystallization with broadbrush, romantic camerawork. The Spider's Stratagem (1969) lengthened a tightly constructed story by Borges to the breaking point. These films, in varying degree, destroyed what was good in their sources without adding anything else. Partner, in particular, which obliterates its source with such effectiveness--and to such little artistic effect--contrasts...
...also suspected that her salary was lower than that paid to male vice presidents. Bitterly, she accepted these inequities for years till she consulted with Hennig and Jardim. They told her to add up her assets and make a case for herself. "That was a blinding insight to her," notes Jardim. "My God," responded her boss when the woman finally mustered the courage to show him that she was managing some $25 million in loans, whereas her four male bank colleagues together were handling only $10 million. Shortly afterward, she got a big raise...