Word: insights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tenderness somewhat reminiscent of Whistler's famous portrait of his mother in its pose and lighting, although Purcell has used a landscape background for this interior subject. Sir William Orpen's Portrait of Richard F. Knoedler is the most academic of the three, displaying technical skill and a keen insight into character...
...comparison which Professor Morize draws between American and French education, for his remarks do not seem entirely applicable to England--indicates a keen insight and suggests an unusual analytical explanation of present day conditions both in this country and abroad. The French have often been termed the most intelligent people in the world, and the Americans have been similarly flattered by being called the most idealistic. It is quite probable that both generalities are capable of only occasional application, but the fact that they have gained a certain amount of popular credence is in itself significant. Intelligence has never been...
...reading' and was well repaid," The book is full of life and vigor. I do not know of a better picture of 'student life' at Harvard; which, I guess, is not essentially different from the life at other Eastern-American universities. The particular quality of the book is its insight into the personal nature of the development of a boy into a man in college years...
...treatment of hair is just as much a part of medicine as that of other organs; barbers, drug clerks, hairdressers have no secret insight into the problem...
Barbers, drug clerks, hairdressers-they have no secret insight...