Word: insightfulness
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...their similar personal attributes, their special sense of sincerity, and their addiction for compensatory politics," that is, persuading liberals to carry out conservative policies and conservatives to adopt liberal stances. As for sincerity, Hughes used the term somewhat sarcastically: "In his study on Bismarck, Kissinger is full of intuitive insight: 'Sincerity has meaning only in reference to a standard of truth of conduct. The root fact of Bismarck's personality, however, was his incapacity to comprehend any such standard outside his will. It was not that Bismarck lied ... this is much too self-conscious an act-but that...
...loftier plateaus of the mind rather than on a workable theatrical level. Thus Damnation is in many ways especially well suited to armchair listening. Continuing his masterly unprecedented series devoted to Berlioz's major works, Davis again conducts with suave professionalism and lightning-like flashes of insight and revelation...
...back to the point about competition. His enthusiasm for this fascinating insight precludes his discussing one of the most interesting phenomenon of the Business School--the study groups all first-year students become involved in. At the Harvard Business School, future business cutthroats get together to save each other's skins, and study cooperatively, to prepare each other for the following day's classes. The Law School has similar study groups, though they have not been regularized the way they have been across the river. The College has nothing like them, of course--not on a regular basis, nor does...
...announcement with a mixture of astonishment and dismay. "It struck the students as rather comical and extremely hard to believe," said Mrs. Kincaid. So on an exam she challenged them to provide their own explanations for the missing tapes, offering an extra point or two for answers "demonstrating exceptional insight and/or imagination...
...initially puzzled and somewhat dismayed to learn of the acutely personal revelations in Hannah Tillich's book about life with Paulus [Oct. 8]. But upon further reflection. I think her demythologizing will undoubtedly further public interest in a closer study of his writings, with the added insight that here was a philosopher-theologian whose wisdom sprang not from an antiseptic ivory tower but from the morass of personal anguish at being much too human...