Word: insightfulness
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...agents have been looking into the books of a Grand Rapids advertising agency, Insight, Inc., which handled Ford's congressional election drives in 1970 and 1972. Indeed, agency executives explained that they really caused the trouble about the clothing purchases because they urged Ford to modernize his mode of dress. Says one of them, Jeff B. Davis: "We wanted to put him in brighter colors and suits with wider lapels that had a more modern look." Adds Davis: "At the time, we were also representing a clothing store, so we picked out a wardrobe for him, and as a matter...
...rival claimant for Celine's particular kind of sacredness: his sense of being a creature of the night, burdened with exceptional suffering and rewarded with mystical insight. Why does the Jew come from the depths of the ages to terrify us? It is because he is Western man's bad conscience, the victim of his brutality, the reminder of death...
...nights a week for four months; graduates get certificates. Courses are taught by two-member teams of second-and third-year law students, most of them from Georgetown, who earn academic credit for their work. The young instructors-most have never been inside a prison before-also gain insight about people who really need legal help. Says Jerry Kristal, a third-year student who taught last semester: "At first we had stereotypes of what prisoners were. I learned prisoners are human...
...this revealing psychological insight...
Moynihan's pseudo-scholarly attack on the left on Commencement day grew radically more offensive as he offered contemporary society the couch and set into some armchair analysis. A few excerpts illustrate the profound insight of Moynihan's thinking: "I would suggest that a liberal culture does indeed succeed in breeding aggression out of its privileged class...I do not believe that the young elites of this moment who will explain away any act, howsoever monstrous, of Arab terrorists or New World dictatorships do so out of admiration. I believe they do so out of fear. And with this fear...