Word: insightfulness
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...speed with which Gorbachev was ratified as the General Secretary of the Communist Party--less than 24 hours after Chernenko's death--puzzled Western diplomats. Some insight into Gorbachev's confirmation emerged last week with the release of Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko's nominating speech to the Central Committee. The address seemed to Western analysts to have been aimed at blunting potential criticism that Gorbachev, 54, was too outspoken. Gromyko lauded the new leader for expressing himself with a "Leninist directness." Gromyko also stressed that Gorbachev had in effect been "brilliantly" running the country during Chernenko's illness...
...fables are full of images that heavy- handedly foreshadow Picasso's Guernica. Then Davita's father dies as a hero during the bombing at Guernica. Soon after, the child intuitively envisions the battle in Picasso-like terms. Later she sees the work of art and recoils in recognition and insight beyond her years. As the story evolves, the focus shifts from Davita's dogmatic, unhappy parents to her own quiet revolution: yearning for a sense of identity and excluded from the adult world of politics, she becomes a fervent Jew and eventually challenges the patriarchal presumptions of her religion. During...
What makes the Gibs of the world so charming and The Sure Thing so successful is not so much their brilliant insight (not to deride the value of essays on "How to eat pizza without burning the roof of your mouth") but their natural energy and spontaneity...
...effort to gain insight into undergraduate alcohol consumption patterns. University Health Services (UHS) is polling 500 randomly selected members of the senior and freshman classes about their drinking attitudes and habits...
...more of a curiosity than an important document. It is doubtful that it will provide any new insight into early Western-Chinese diplomatic relations," Lum said...