Word: insightfulness
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...luminescent, her work is not the product of the physical eye, but the eye of memory. MacNeil is interested in the past as a "pre-history" to the present. She sets family snapshots from her subjects' earlier years next to her own portrait of the subject to give unusual insight into the chronological progression of an individual from youth to the present...
...strangers and remain strangers after we have read it; few of the memories and associations that make these pictures meaningful to Dorfman have been realized within the pictures themselves and few of them are memorable as purely formal images. Dorfman's intimacy with her subjects has not yielded the insight we expect. Many of Dorfman's friends are poets and writers and several of her photographs, like those of Allen Ginsberg and Robert Crocley are interesting simply because they show us famous people relaxing and joking and reading the morning paper. But for someone who says...
...obvious: Ireland is a marvelously consistent affront to rationality. O'Hanlon knows this. What is more, he does not mind giving the things he deplores their due. In an exasperated chapter on the Catholic Church and its dominion over the republic, he cites Tocqueville's brilliant insight of more than 100 years ago: priest and peasant stood together against the common Protestant landowning enemy. Nothing that has happened since, including England's 1922 exit from the 26 Southern coun ties, has threatened that historic union...
Despite barriers of time, religion and culture, Winthrop sensed qualities of harmony, integrity and tradition in ancient Chinese jades that made him cherish them above his other possessions. His legacy to us is his insight and sensitivity, both of which are amply displayed in the Fogg's tribute to their patron...
...strange tunes. Of all the publications of the Foreign Policy Association, none enjoys the immediacy of its A Cartoon History of United States Foreign Policy Since World War I. In an introduction, Political Analyst Richard H. Rovere acknowledges the ability of certain cartoons to provide "flashes of extraordinary insight and political prescience." In this category he places a David Low cartoon of 1939. Hitler bows to Stalin: "The scum of the earth, I believe." Stalin returns the courtesy: "The bloody assassin of the workers, I presume." Recalls Rovere: "It took most of us more than 20 years to catch...