Word: insightfulness
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Government policy making is not the only area of the legal profession which requires the type of broad experience with human problems which can only be learned from books. If a lawyer seeks to advise people, he must have some insight into how all parties concerned in any given transaction will operate under differing human, rather than legal conditions...
...however, Martin may often have appeared more like a Prussian general. As Ambassador to Thailand and later to Rome, he worked prodigious hours and expected his staff to do the same. He had a habit of waking up in the middle of the night, struck by a thought or insight, and drafting a cable by his bedside or calling up one of his assistants to discuss the matter. "He even dreams diplomacy and power plays," says one associate. For relaxation, he once tried golf but shortly gave it up; he tried swimming and dropped that...
THIS AND a few other rare moments of lucid, controlled, and articulate insight are promising. The closing passage of the book, in which the main and least heroic character stumbles across his authentic self in the role of the Jester, playing the Fool, is astonishingly effective and almost beautiful. But like so much else about this novel, even this is belated. Revelations in a puddle on the very last page don't exactly compensate for the foregoing wade through 400 pages of ankle-deep slush...
...helpful and hardly address the substance of Janov's work. Some critics strike at Janov's often naive language, undoubtedly a vulnerable point but not an excuse for avoiding the usefulness of his ideas. Janov clearly leaves himself open to such criticism, saying things like, "I had an insight into paranoia the other day while driving," or, more important for his theory, "Well people will logically produce a well society." His apparent simple-mindedness obscures his far more insightful constructions elsewhere. I think Janov's tools should be taken seriously, even if at times, he handles them clumsily...
Both these plays, which are directed by Donnally Miller, stir up joy and insight in their minor way so naturally from the tenor of the moment and the color of the incident that plot summaries, for example, won't work on paper. It's all pretty weird...