Word: insights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Candles in the Storm, despite its bloody climax, is a quiet tale of people who go to a summer colony to work. Its value does not depend upon its plot which holds its fragments together, but upon occasional flashes of insight into character...
...raven-like eye spots a prominent onlooker in his court room, he is apt to halt proceedings, introduce the visitor, make him take a bow. He holds that every judge, before he takes office, should have at least five years experience as a poker player, to get an insight into human nature. Last autumn he wrote a letter to a newspaper declaring that he enjoyed seeing the execution of Negro Charley Dumas, convicted of raping and mutilating white girls. When some citizens protested his gushy enjoyment, Judge Gassaway reviewed the case from the bench, cited the heinous nature...
Thomas Hunt Morgan: A renowned zoologist whose experimental skill and penetrating insight have laid bare the mechanism of heredity...
...might feel fairly titillated by Hanfstaengl's glowing tribute to "American energy, character, and idealism." Indeed, conservative professors, if not profiteering patriots, might revel in the lovable Ernst's bid for "intellectual, scientific, and human interchange between the U.S. and Germany, without which there can be no true insight, no true understanding, no true progress...
...Pittsburgh established an unequaled standard of program building and organ playing. With a technical mastery superior to the demands made upon it by every musical form from dance to symphony, he endows his interpretations with that beauty and authority that comes only to the executant whose understanding and insight go far beyond mere recital playing...