Word: insightfulness
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They are also a short, sharp insight into the temper of the times, a compressed cultural iconography. It was plain that the sexual revolution had reached the suburbs when in 1968 Ford Motor Co. sold autos with a song urging: "It's the way to swing/ Go and have your fling." McDonald's spoke to the '60s-weary Silent Majority in 1971 with words that had little to do with fast food but that probably summed up why people supported the Viet Nam War: "Let's start buildin' our world/ Let's stop puttin...
...American Art in "Disney Animations and Animators." Preliminary character and background sketches, animators' roughs of entire sequences, eels (the finished ink and paint drawings that the camera photographed), even film loops in which roughs and completed films are juxtaposed-all are there. The show provides a singular insight into the painstaking work of the talented artists who competed to realize Disney's dreams...
...This insight concludes Tamar, the story of a man who is late for a dinner party and made to sit with the children, one of whom is a beauty on the brink of womanhood. Exquisite tension, indeed. Elsewhere, a man numbed by tragedy climbs out of himself by scaling an Alp. The purpose: to recapture his humanity "in a crucible of high drama." Humanity sinks in Letters from the "Samantha, " in which the captain of a British sailing vessel rescues a reddish ape from the Indian Ocean but throws it back when the sad, manlike creature disrupts ship...
Among newspaper critics, Shales is the most admired, though John O'Connor of the New York Times may have more clout because of his proximity to Broadcast Row. The Shales style is a fast-paced blend of insight, humor and an almost possessive affection for the medium. He can write lovingly, as he did in "Dingbat's Demise," his column about the death of All in the Family's Edith Bunker: "Wife, mother, grandma, neighbor ... philosopher, cook, mender of socks, bringer of beers, keeper of the faith ... Edith, Edith, Edith, how could you ever...
...Galbraith's contemporaries, combine his proximity to the central events of the era, and his mastery of the English language; this combination alone would make A Life in Our Times a worthy endeavor. Yet Galbraith has something beyond the advantages of access and writing skill--insight into the human heart. That insight might not extend into the knowledge of his own soul (at least for public consumption), but it is a rare talent, displayed to great advantage in his memoirs, and, consequently, worth celebrating...