Word: insightfulness
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...decent interval" approach would yield startling insight into Kissinger's later policy recommendations on the war. To begin with, the Saigon regime was not being defended out of any real sense of principle. Kissinger was willing and eager to uphold a corrupt totalitarian government with the most brutal possible methods for the mere sake of diplomatic gain. Thousands of lives could be sacrificed and whole civilizations destroyed in the name of opposing a takeover which Kissinger had earlier been prepared-and was probably still prepared-to accept...
...CRIMSON has had trouble covering Cavanagh this year. It was too easy during the hockey season to create an exciting story by featuring the exploits of the Cavanagh line. Because of Cavanagh's frankness. I caught myself several times relying on him as the sole voice of insight. The editors have spent the spring watching our tennis reporter-changing "invincible" to "undefeated" and cutting adjectives like "super colossal...
Hardly anybody had ever heard of the Stuttgart Ballet-a small dance com pany paid for out of public funds to supply divertissements occasionally interspersed in operas-until the Württem-berg State Theater director, Walter Erich Schäfer, had the insight to hire John Cranko and give him his head in 1961. Cranko started by firing half the dispirited little company he inherited, then went shopping all over the world for incipient talent to train. He also began establishing procedures which are, in the customarily authoritarian world of classical ballet, curiously family-like and informal. Deliberately, Cranko...
...group shares his insight, but some will not or cannot benefit by it. A black girl, defiantly defensive, insists in a tantrum that she once tried to get close to her father, failed, and now will just go on "kissing his ass." The film ends with a shot of her head resting on the shoulder of a companion, face turned away from the rest of the group...
MARIHUANA users will find parts of this book fascinating as an insight into personal experiences with the drug: Grinspoon's analysis of cannabis chemistry explains how different types of dope-grown in different climates, harvested in different circumstances-may induce different physiological responses. The stoned experience will then have a great deal of variance due to the chemical composition of weed from a particular crop...