Word: insightfulness
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Although it centers on a legal theory developed by one of America's most famous jurists, the senior thesis written by David H. Souter '61 offers precious little insight into the Supreme Court nominee's politics or judicial philosophy...
...improving mottos, printed on posters, zapping from light-emitting diode boxes, and even carved in stone: EATING TOO MUCH IS CRIMINAL, for instance, or ABUSE OF POWER COMES AS NO SURPRISE. In the late '70s, after graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design, Holzer was smitten by an insight. To subvert the slow and, natch, "elitist" way in which art tends to find an audience, she started writing short slogans and leaving them in public places for people to read. "If you want to reach a general audience," she proclaimed, "it's not art issues that are going...
...equally recognizably a precursor to it; thus the outrageous sexual politics onstage is not ours, but pertinent to it. Director A.J. Antoon has taken considerable liberties (one character is called Joe Bob), and he uses the setting as much for slapstick buffoonery as for literary insight. But the show, the 14th in producer Joseph Papp's cycle of the Shakespeare canon, works better than any since the opening A Midsummer Night's Dream, also by Antoon...
Forbes, cast in the lead role, suffers the most under this burden. With acute psychological insight, Rabe drew Crissy as a confused child-woman. But he keeps Chrissy too busy with some ridiculous subplots; the script calls for more emotional acrobatics that even an actress of Forbes' considerable presence can successfully perform...
...Penrose freely admits, his other main theory is far more speculative. It holds that consciousness and insight, which he says are beyond the capabilities of computers, are governed by as yet undiscovered laws of physics. The idea that computers are necessarily unconscious and without insight is largely based on his own experience in solving abstract puzzles. And it is true that these mental processes are not explained by existing laws of physics. The answers will come, says Penrose, with the merger of Einstein's theory of relativity, which concerns itself with gravity, and quantum theory, which governs the sub-microscopic...