Word: insights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Oliver Wendell Holmes, Charles Sumher, Edward Everett, and many other personalities of that period, appear in the early lists. Professor Kittredge is a worthy successor of these masters of public address, and his hearers will listen with unusual pleasure, not only to his critical erudition, but to his wisdom, insight, and wit. --Boston Transcript
...from college and after a few years in the world have lost contact with intellectual activities. They have cut off systematic reading and thinking. They have drawn too sharp a line of division between their academic life and their practical world. My own feeling is that a little more insight into "practical" life during the academic years would be most helpful in making those years more full of meaning to the student. I am equally certain that, in the years of "practical" life, too little contact is maintained with the academic, theoretical, or intellectual side of life...
...from the hours of school or college courses this the wittiest of all Moliere's dramatic work. For those who have forgotten, a glance at any of its editions in one of the "modern language" series will recall its brilliant satiric arraignment of the foibles of society, its unusual insight into the souls of men and women, and its succession of significantly human scenes...
...covers without exploding. Mr. raves has had the difficult problem of tolling in his own words, with frequent quotations and allusions, what the world was doing and what "Punch" thought about it. He has done it admirably and has by Mr. Punch's brilliant strokes of humor, wit, and insight made his country's history more readable than the much-praised efforts of countless weary archivists. Not only does he supply all necessary background, and explain what and why, without equivocation, "Punch" did but he supplies all this in a manner unobtrusive and so in keeping with the general tone...
...whole play is filled with true French atmosphere and the full power of the dialogue has been retained by the translator, Howard Phillips '23, treasurer of the Dramatic Club. Besides giving valuable insight into Talleyrand's character, into the life and customs of the time, as seen through the lives of the common people especially, and into the French character in general, Mr. Guitry's play, which is of the episodic type so well-know from the recent writings of John Drinkwater, holds a very high place in the modern drama...