Word: insights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...striking crises. He is visited in his room by the intriguing Talleyrand, who sees in him a tremendously powerful political force which he, Talleyrand, seeks control. During a stirring interview which, through Beranger's characterization of him and his own speech and action, gives new and valuable insight into Talleyrand's character, Beranger states his heroic principles and gives his final answer...
...knowledge of Italy, but his most remarkable understanding is of the relations between man and woman. Browning was masculine to the core and it was this quality which enabled him to write so well on the subject. He put everything he had into his writing and this included human insight and psychology. But he was not primarily a preacher or psychologist but an artist and it was in this line that he excelled...
...generation", Rolland wrote an unclassifiable book. He himself said "Any work which can be circumscribed by a definition is a dead work". "Jean-Christophe", which has justly gained for Rolland his largest number of admirers, which stands out as one of the great contributions to contemporary literature, "combines insight into the soul with an outlook into...
There is still another aspect. Heretofore we have assumed that disarmament could not begin until the Eastern Question was solved. But with characteristic insight, Mr. Hughes reminds us that the two questions go hand in hand, and that there is no reason why they cannot be considered together. Thus he assures a disposition of the Far-East controversy, and at the same time arranges that the two sets of delegates, one interested in disarmament, the other in eastern affairs, may both be kept occupied, rather than that one set should wait for the other...
...coaching of J. W. D. Seymour '17, the Dramatic Club has been able to develop a competent group of actors, many of whom will return next year. The work of choosing the players from the many that present themselves for trials is exceedingly difficult, but Mr. Seymour's keen insight into youthful actors, also, for that matter, managers and business men, and his large knowledge of the stage fit him splendidly for his work with the Club. In the past season the acting of W. V. M. Fawcett '21, J. M. Brown '23, W. B. Leach...