Word: insightfulness
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...novels. Myra Breckinridge (1968) was supposed to be a poke in the eye to smug notions of sexual identity; it became a bestseller instead. Julian (1964) and Burr (1973) insisted that true heroes of history are villains in the dull popular imagination; millions of people, including dullards, relished this insight. By this time, success dogged Vidal at every turn. If you cannot offend your enemies, why not take it easy and join them? So, here comes Lincoln, a massive package bearing every wretched excess that Vidal so justifiably scorned eleven years...
...female students; on the politics of lodging and following through complaints, and on the difficulty of related problems such as "sexual hassle," or sexist and offensive remarks in the classroom, which do not threaton directly but reinforce women students' awareness of their lack of maneuvering power. Nevertheless, their basic insight rings out clearly: such confusion is no excuse to let harassment continue. Nor is the issue so confusing, as some college administrators like to insist, that the ambiguity is an excuse for not taking decisive action...
Historically, medicine did not emerge from its Gaelenie traditions and practices until the mid-nineteenth century with the first "revolution in biology," the recognition that the cell is the fundamental unit of most living things. This fundamental insight was incorporated into medicine by Virchow. Bernard and other Europeans, and became the scientific basis of medicine for the next hundred years. In fact, even today the concepts developed between 1850 and the mid 1920s still form the chief scientific base of medicine...
UNFORTUNATELY, these instances of insight are rare in Trevor's text. The author's personal stamp is too little evident in this tour, he defers, rather, to the role of editor and prompter. It is, in a sense, too thorough a tour--one which takes us into too many obscure nooks and crannies of the Irish literary landscape. And too often these unremarkable "bits and pieces" detract from the more important voices--limiting our visit to Swift, for example, to a few rather trivial verses in praise of gardens. The result, then, of this compilation is a thinly disguised anthology...
...Falconers are loners for the most part. It's just them and the bird." Timothy Hutton, 23, should know. He spent six months in Santa Cruz, Calif., last year learning the ancient art of falconry to gain insight into the character of Christopher Boyce, the devoted falconer and former altar boy who in 1977 was sentenced to 40 years for passing U.S. military secrets to the Soviet Union. Hutton, known for such films as Ordinary People and Iceman, likes portraying Boyce in The Falcon and the Snowman, due out at the end of the year, rather than again playing...