Word: insights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first the words sounded impudent, as when she thumbed her nose, in pungent book reviews, at literary lights like G. B. Shaw and H. G. Wells. The cleverness and impudence matured into eloquence and insight, and in criticism and novels (The Judge, The Return of the Soldier, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon), Rebecca West proved herself one of the most ardently articulate Englishwomen of her time...
Pointing to the natural sciences as particular offenders in their narrow presentation, the Colgate Committee on the Postwar College argues, 'Memorizing, even, with understanding, a group of facts from one of the natural sciences, for example, does not given an insight into the actual function or functioning of science or of scientists...
...comic acting and his comic cadenzas alike there are occasional blurs of mood and insight - moments which are like being bonged over the head with a champagne bottle instead of savoring the vintage. But they do no serious harm ; they merely show that Danny Kaye is not yet a great comedian. The exciting thing about his work in Wonder Man, aside from the immediate pleasure it gives, is that it shows he may quite possibly become...
Vicki Baum intended "Hotel Berlin" to give an insight into the Nazis' character structure and show how defeats are affecting their smug arrogance. Hollywood has adapted her novel into a lusty adventure story which has neither subtlety nor suspense and would be a complete failure if not for a few very impressive minor characterizations...
Expressing confidence in the effectiveness of the anti-discrimination bills pending in many state legislatures and already passed in New York State, President Johnson termed them "a very valuable index of growing insight on the part of American minority groups...