Word: insights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sort of teaching that is good for him--not necessarily what he wants but what an experienced trainer would prescribe, neither too much nor too little, but just enough to keep him fit. It is true no dean or president is or ever will be endowed with the superhuman insight to prescribe precisely the desired stimulus, but that should...
...While [the] respondent believes that the only Christian standard of birth control is self control, he desires to state that he has come to this conviction through a steady growth in spiritual development and insight...
...characters Rose Leighton emerges as much the most vivid and alive. A few deft lines of description give an unforgettable picture of her and the portrayal of her thoughts gives one an insight into the sweetness of her character and womanliness...
These chapters rearrange some of the portraits in the gallery of letters and lucidity of style adds grace to the arguments employed to justify the changes. If Professor Garrod does not destroy contrary convictions he shakes them thoroughly. Arnold, Clough, Emerson, and Bridges, he treats with scholastic insight too rarely found in company of poetic comprehension. His light is sharp and deeply cuts into the body of poetic expression while his own vehicle is characterized by a delicacy that is pleasing respite from the brutishness of many modern critics of letters...
...hypnotist's sway. Before the final curtain murder has been done. But luckily the children think it is all amusing, delightful. A little book-hardly more than a long short story-Mario and the Magician has more in it than many a lengthy novel, told with the insight and artistry that has made Thomas Mann acclaimed as Germany's foremost novelist...