Word: insights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have weekly lectures given by specialists in certain fields, such as the drama, the novel, the poem, or the essay. Certainly the English Department has such specialists. These men, of necessity, would emphasize the form of each type of literature, but precisely what the student needs is an insight into the mechanics of writing and the organization of ideas...
LETTERS TO AN ARTIST-Vincent van Gogh-Viking ($3.50). Fifty-eight letters written by a tormented genius to a young Dutch aristocrat and artist. Written from 1881 to 1885, they give some insight into van Gogh's personality and aspirations, contain discussions of other painters as well as his theories about his own work. Illustrated, the book contains seven facsimiles of van Gogh's letters, showing the sketches with which he illustrated them...
Despite its broad panorama, the distinction of The Olive Field lies less in the political insight it provides than in a number of brilliant scenes scattered throughout the book, giving eloquent testimony of Author Bates's graphic powers. One of these is a description of a Holy Week procession that is broken up by atheists who smash the images, burn the figures of Christ. "In the middle of the road, Mudarra, his pale face burning with intense purpose, was swinging a bar of iron at the feet of Judas Iscariot. ... In the Square of Our Lady of Carmen...
...town screens is to be found at the Loew's State and Orpheum Theatres in the harrowingly powerful study of lynching which Fritz Lang has created in his picture "Fury." Hailed from all sides as the most significant film of the season it narrates with breath-taking vigor and insight the story of a young man innocently involved in the mad antics of an infuriated mob. Especially noteworthy are the scenes depicting the origin and growth of mob violence and its development into the characterisically American form of the lynching. Not a pleasant experience, but one of such dramatic power...
...scattered impressions of things seen & heard, it has a cumulative effect less personal than Sheean & Co., more sharply focused than Mark Sullivan, more impressive than either. Ticketed as a literary critic, Edmund ("Bunny") Wilson a few years ago found his position too academic in a day "when accuracy of insight, when courage of judgment, are worth all the names in all the books," went out of his study to take a look for himself. His subjective-factual report covers three years (1932-35), two countries (the U. S. and Russia). Parts of the U. S. he found like Hell, parts...