Word: insightfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...YEARS OF CHINA watching preceded Barbara Tuchman's six week visit to China in the summer of 1972. Behind her were two Pulitzer Prizes, the most recent for Stillwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-1945. Her authority as a pre-communist China expert lend weight to her insight into the tenacious Chinese riddle and she agreed to record her observations and impressions for the Associated Press and Harper's magazine. Notes From China consists of these and another previously published essay, the speculative "It Mao Had Come to Washington...
Simon gradually uncovers the substance of Winter Light, moving us in the same way that the film itself moves us as he completes his interpretation of the film as a heightened, penetrating version of the insight that "hell together is better than hell alone." In considering the visual impact of Winter Light, he examines the ways in which watching a film of Communion affects the viewer. This type of analysis could well have been brought to bear on Persona, a film so sophisticated that many one-time viewers found nothing but visual impact...
...situations that affected him came to be. The man had a distaste for social theory that matched his descriptive ability, and the result was a socialist with politics based on "decency" and most often defined negatively. The product was powerful prose oddly empty of any overwhelming or pervasive theoretical insight...
Halberstam defended former President John F. Kennedy '40, for his candor and insight, concerning the war in Southeast. Asis but said that "his perceptions were much stronger than his willingness to act upon them...
...specimens available, the council rated 31% unacceptable, 53% usable only with careful guidance, and just 16% "scientifically and conceptually acceptable." One film, Drugs and the Nervous System, was singled out for "misleading statements," such as a claim that LSD causes permanent brain damage. Another, "LSD: Insight or Insanity," was described as drawing on "rare, infrequent and experimental" results to depict the dangers of LSD use. According to Richard M. Earle, president of the council, the majority of the films exaggerate drug problems in ways that are "so inaccurate, so unscientific, so psychologically unsound that [they] are doing more harm than...