Word: insights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...form. There are adventures with dogs and cats, a treasure-hunting expedition, the inevitable circus, a running away from home. There is tragedy when the village bad boy dies to rescue a contemporary from drowning. The book is like a score of others, but Mr. Cobb's insight into the preadolescent intelligence or his recollection of the days immediately before the first hair curved proudly on the youthful chest is shrewder than most...
...That the idea of the League of Nations has met opposition from skeptics is a matter of small importance, since skepticism is nothing but intellectual sloth or lack of insight. There is a tendency in certain quarters to oppose the idea of patriotism to the idea of international solidarity, as if they were conflicting and irreconcilable conceptions. The League of Nations does not supersede individual countries; it extends them, develops them and enlarges them, and countries that are members of the League do not lose an iota of these inalienable sovereign rights which are their protection and their pride...
...SHOW-OFF?A nicely balanced comedy that lies close to tragedy, with with an uncanny insight into a human being who considers that words outweigh deeds...
...SHOW-OFF?A nicely balanced comedy that lies close to tragedy, with an uncanny insight into a human being who considers words outweigh deeds...
...case has periodically been presented, Milton, Roger Williams, Thomas Paine were former instruments, and every case for toleration stated since has looked back to the "Bloody Tenent" or to "Arepagitica". The mind of philosophic insight takes intellectual freedom as an axiom...