Word: insights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...splendid bit of appreciative characterization we are allowed for a moment to be on intimate terms with the great American, Theodore Roosevelt. Then the author takes us abroad and paints the American tourist in the prosperous times of 1907. And at the same time he gives us an insight into the circle of English society which Pinero and Jones put before the footlights...
...different matter. Like Helen of Troy's beauty, it is more often glowingly mentioned than accurately described. But three things might be said of it: it is technically practically flawless; it has beauty of color and vigorous line achieved with the fewest possible strokes; occasionally it fails in insight in spite of Sargent's far-famed "ability to render character." He is a marvelous ob- server of externals and sometimes- but not always-of inner truths about his sitters...
...indefensible, by showing us how they arose and became what they are, what human needs and interests they have served, what forces have favored or misguided their development. History may not furnish the statesman with exact solutions for each concrete problem. But it can give him a deeper insight into the nature of political forces; it can train his powers of observation and reflection about political matters; it can supply him with a mass of evidence of how given measures and policies have worked out in the past--the chief kind of experimental data that the social sciences possess...
Coach John T. Slattery of the University nine has had wide and varied baseball experiences ranging from the college diamond to the big league circuit. Because of his knowledge of baseball in all of its different phases, Mr. Slattery has an insight into the psychology of college ball that is the good fortune of few of the major league ball players who are engaged in coaching teams at schools and colleges...
Have you read Arthur Train's "His Children's Children"? Do so by all means. You will be thrilled by the author's insight into modern conditions and social distractions...