Word: insights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Edwin G. Nourse. Too bad that more important people do not share his alarming insight and perspective regarding the present state of affairs...
Faulkner's detective-hero, Gavin Stevens, is a small-town Mississippi lawyer with gritty common sense and a shrewd insight into poor-white psychology that enables him to unravel his county's crimes. Up to a point he is both likeable and credible-a Yoknapatawpha County Sherlock Holmes-but Faulkner runs him to the ground by overloading him with unnecessary and undemonstrated learning ("a Harvard graduate . . . who could discuss Einstein with college professors") and with too much folksy moralizing...
Since nearly all information that the group obtains will be of a "subjective nature," Poskanzer and Wyant believe the great value of their project will be in the "insight which it leads to the College situation." "Some specific recommenda- tions on matters that the committee generally agrees are feasible will be made, however," they stated...
...senses, and he is prepared to visit Heaven to achieve self-fulfilment. In analysis, it may be hard to see how this idea could ever be interesting in dramatic form. But the sparkling prose of the philosophic discussions is delightful for its wit, its audacity and its insight...
...leaders for God in bringing the members of His one family into mutual understanding and respect and trust-and we have failed. In penitence we bow in the presence of our common Father God and ask His forgiveness, believing that only to the humble and penitent will He give insight into what all of us, white and colored together, should do in our city to right this wrong...