Word: insightfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Replays can also stimulate "retrospective shock"-the sudden recovery of old memories that may give insight into present troubles. After watching her rigid posture on the monitor for 15 minutes, one patient recalled a childhood fear: that she would be abandoned if she did not behave. That was the reason for her exaggerated self-control as an adult. Aware that the fear was no longer realistic, she became able to relax and behave more spontaneously...
...screen images of himself. "It's like me looking into the past," the salesman said, "and I get smaller and smaller until I disappear into nothingness." Then he remembered that as a child he had felt worthless, different from others, and ignored at home. Berger believes that this insight into early feelings of insignificance eventually helped the salesman to shed some of his shyness...
...conclusion that the CRR has provided insight to the machinations of Faculty politics is more attractive; indeed, the Faculty's reaction to these assumptions by students has always been the most intriguing aspect of the CRR ruckus...
...jerk. Even such a figure might conceivably be observed to good effect, but Kosinski perceives nothing of unusual interest in the homunculus he has created. A succession of brief, turgid scenes demonstrates Whalen's emptiness, a quality that is never in doubt; nothing in the book offers any insight into the author's reasons for pursuing such an unrewarding project. One of Kosinski's few gestures toward literary excellence amounts to a stylistic tic: his repeated use of Grim Bits from Mother Nature to give symbolic weight to Whalen's flounders. The grotesque baobab tree...
...STRIKING that from both the left and right came accusations of indifference to reality. The criticism must have come as a great blow to Mao, who--especially in his military writings--prides himself on his insight into the reality of situations and his close contact with the masses. Regardless, it seems hard to believe that China has not profited from Mao's campaigns...