Word: insightfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last round of secret negotiations which ended without agreement in November 1971 may help provide some insight on the present military and diplomatic dilemma...
...meeting Coach John Yovicsin and his football staff, who successfully foiled any aspirations I had for gridiron achievement. Yovicsin and his staff could best be described as typically racist, reactionary conservatives--the kind of Americans who elected Richard Nixon in 1968. The following selected passages might provide more insight into "Yovy" and his relationship to me during the 1970 football season: Dartmouth Program Oct. 24, 1970 "It didn't seem inappropriate at his first press conference at a Boston hotel. Down at the end of a table was a long-hair, a beatnik with bushy hair and thick glasses...
...intelligent, perceptive ones I can think of, Joseph Durso's The All-American Dollar-The Big Business of Sports, qualifies as another. Although Durso, a well-respected sports journalist for the New York Times, fails to destroy the sports myth or attack with much zest, he often offers an insight into sport as a capitalistic, cut throat enterprise, controlled by television, run by businessmen in the front office, and played by athletes who continually keep their salaries in mind...
Glasgow in the late 1950s to work for the Hudson's Bay Company above the Arctic Circle, has its moments of old-style adventure and anthropological insight. The author is brisk, precise, modest as he tells about fighting with mean Eskimos, cajoling lazy Eskimos, foiling marriage-minded Eskimos and learning how to carve an igloo with a snow knife. Eskimos, it appears, have 33 distinct words to describe snow in various conditions from soft to firmish, "but not quite firm enough to build a snow-house." There is only one Eskimo word for all the 150 different kinds...
Koch's experiences with children and the poetry he shown us, like the moving and persuasive letter from Barbians, reveal the ultimate tragedy in any country's failure to use it education resources creatively for all children--the stifling of childhood insight and imagination and the threat to our future source of energy and strength...