Word: insightfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reporting for this week's story was largely the responsibility of New York Bureau Correspondent Mary Cronin, who spent several days interviewing Gould at his Greenwich Village home. She also talked with Gould's mother Lucille. Researcher Patsy Beckert added further insight by interviewing his father, Bernard Goldstein, and people from his early show business days. West Coast Correspondents David Whiting and Martin Sullivan rounded out the report to Jay Cocks, who wrote the finished story, and Peter Bird Martin, who edited...
Speer offers a special insight into Hitler's strength and weakness. He sees the man as a gifted amateur: "He arrived at the core of matters too easily and therefore could not understand them with real thoroughness." At the outset of the war, Hitler surprised his enemies with tactics they did not expect. But, Speer adds with a professional's disdain, "as soon as setbacks occurred he suffered shipwreck, like most untrained people." Speer became the miracle man of German war production simply by unifying a system fragmented by the conflicting demands made upon it by Hitler...
...there are umbrellas, which the girl collects and cares for by keeping them furled in the rain and open in sunshine. Why is " 'brella" one of the 200 words that come in an unmodulated rush from the cave of her near total silence? West speculates with uncommon insight: "When the 'brella's up you're overjoyed by its capacity for coming down, and when it's rolled and fastened you're overjoyed by what it's just been, what it can again be after a couple of simple shoves...
...period, every child thinks he knows more than his parents," says Tracy. "From the insight teen-agers gain today from their contact with the outside world, they easily see parents' faults. But instead of saying, 'Oh God, I see that you are not as smart as I am,' 'Oh God, I see that you can't see about the war,' 'Oh God, you are a person who doesn't change,' the kids should look at the parents objectively. This is a hard responsibility for the teenager. Take my mother. I like her as a person. I'm sure I would...
...most conspicuous talent: he is far and away the most skillful interrogator in the business. On TV, at press conferences, and at the now-famous breakfasts run by Godfrey Sperling of the Christian Science Monitor, he breaks through the reserve of official after official with the wit, insight and irreverence of his questions...