Word: insights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whatever they may feel about most national issues are sincerely interested in the problems which have arisen in regard to prohibition. True, all such discussions must in the nature of the case be inconclusive, but no man who attends such gatherings can fail to come away without a deeper insight into the intricasies of the problem before them. Above all things, the need for concerted thought and action emerges clearly...
...Miomandre's account does not pretend to be exhaustive, but it hits the high spots: her marriage with Vulcan, her bedazzlement of Paris, subsequent passages at arms with Mars, Anchises, Adonis, Hermes, Tannhauser. Venus's first, most famed intrigue, her affair with Mars, is related with great insight and sympathy: from this narration the wronged husband, Vulcan, emerges the hero, and Mars is shown in an unenviable and ridiculous light. Author de Miomandre is no admirer of Mars, says some bright things about his dullness: "As soon as he saw anything the least stormy on the conversational horizon...
...machine; that they will become nothing more than small-salaried white-collar men, with routine jobs not quite to their liking. Discussion of that side of the question is beside the point; but the Junior Training Plan might well be considered as a means of giving the student an insight into the matter...
...Mile is a horrible and sickening play-the most repulsive play now to be seen in Manhattan. There will be a great deal of discussion as to whether it is art or merely nauseous and falsifying realism. But if art includes the clarification of vital experience through order and insight, then this play, which sensitively depicts one of the most terrible predicaments into which life forces its unfortunates, must surely be construed as esthetic...
...attractive, dark-haired, vivacious, is an Englishwoman whose real name is Mrs. Harold Hobson. Her husband is the son of Economist J. A. Hobson. Last fortnight Author Salt arrived in the U. S., drank tea with her publishers. She writes with realism, economy and a good deal of satirical insight. Consequently her stories are not very cheerful reading, especially for males. She has also written: A Tiny Seed of Love; Sense and Sensuality...