Word: insightfulness
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...that their sense of what constitutes proper behavior by a U.S. President is not so different from my own. But I am shocked to learn that the men responsible for delivering the news to such a large segment of the U.S. population could be so lacking in insight that they were surprised by the transcripts' revelations...
...better historian than other men, Jules Michelet once observed, it is because I have a larger table. The French historian's graceful bow to the supremacy of broad and easily retrievable research over insight has now been carried to devastating extremes by the authors of this provocative book. Fogel, 47, is a professor of economics and history at the universities of Chicago and Rochester. Engerman, 38, is professor of economics and history at Rochester. Together they are the leading edge of a new wing of historians known as cliometricians because their methods marry Clio, the muse of history...
Because the book also takes up the authors' beliefs about how so many historians misread the past-through misuse of figures, inadequate training in economics and statistics, reliance on isolated eyewitness accounts and subjective "impressions"-it offers a fascinating insight into how historians work, and how living political attitudes affect views of the dead past. Any stigma will do to beat a vicious dogma. Accordingly, says Time on the Cross, the trail of historical error began with the rhetorical zeal of abolitionists. Justly considering slavery a crime against God and man, they did not hesitate to exaggerate its iniquities...
...Middle East inevitably recalls his negotiations in another battleground: Viet Nam. By coincidence, the first "inside" account of those 3½ years of talks and tribulations appears this week in the summer issue of the quarterly Foreign Policy. Written by former New York Timesman Tad Szulc, it offers an insight into the Secretary's "brilliance, stamina and tactics." Szulc pieced together his 47-page narrative from conversations with several officials involved in the peace effort-although not with Kissinger himself. Among the article's principal points...
Jack's language was cleaner than Dick's. This insight into the comparative virtues of the Administrations of Presidents Kennedy and Nixon was made last week in the Washington Post by JFK's press secretary Pierre Salinger. If transcripts of Kennedy's Oval Office conversations existed, asserts Pierre, they would have revealed Jack's easy authority over his staff. There would have been no need to have the letter P placed before his utterances, as it is in the Nixon transcripts, because Kennedy aides always called the boss "Sir" or "Mr. President." Pierre burnishes...