Word: insights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Freshmen now move through the Harvard Union lines with maximum speed and minimum waits, but they still have ample time to enjoy the appetizing side-show put on by students dumping trays on the way out. With rare insight into the psychology of hunger, the Union management has arranged for trays to be dumped under the noses of incoming lines, and the gradually growing piles of half-consumed food made slushy by left-over gravy is a pre-meal feature wondrous to behold...
...them thrice weekly, only a few actually make personal contact with the men on the podium or at the desk and thus give their work that vital additional tang. The institution, "office hours," has often made the difference between the most routine delineation of facts and an entirely new insight into the same material. Harvard faculty members are much more accessible than most undergraduates would believe. By not seeking them out, the fifth guy from the left, aisle K, will remain just that through four crowded years...
After an operation, Dr. Lund thinks, the patient should gently but firmly be told what has been found and whether he will live. "Dying patients usually have a fairly good insight into their condition and the shock of confirming this belief is not great...
...these people is that they have recoiled from drama, are unfit for drama-can only poke around in the cupboard of memories and might-have-been. That, too, is the pathos of them. But it is a pathos that Chekhov sharply rings with humor and partly punctures with insight. Always compassionate, he is never deceived. The wand he waves to evoke moods suddenly becomes a scalpel that lays motives bare. He sees all that is flabby-and all that is funny-in these people who make mournfulness their métier...
...Mondorf Interrogation Center, he was clad only in lace panties and sobbed: "I am a criminal." Later he tried to commit suicide. After the Nurnberg trials opened Frank became a Catholic, prayed daily in his cell. On the witness stand he was fervent: "I have at last gained an insight into the terrible atrocities. ... I can't allow it before my conscience that responsibility . . . should be handed over to ... small people alone.... I have used words which I am sorry now I used." Only once did he show a flicker of his old insolence: "We used the wrong methods...