Word: insights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...interiors of her home. The role's extremes of neurotic desperation are beyond healthy Miss Bergman, and, wisely, she never attempts the babbling hysteria or shrieking rages that made Judith Evelyn's performance the sensation of its first season on Broadway. But she brings fine and passionate insight to her gentler breakdown-which she enriches tremendously by.creating deep perspectives into the sort of woman this wife was before she was trapped...
During the war of 1812, Adney's grandfather played as a boy with the Miami tribe in what is now Ohio. Thus Adney accounts for his insight into the Indian mind. Ohio-born, he became a naturalized Canadian to qualify for a World War I Engineers' commission. Now he frets that he must register as a "British subject." He lives alone in a small cottage among Upper Woodstock's towering elms. He puts down his own pickles, launders his own shirts. He likes to speed parting guests with an ancient Malecite blessing: "May the horns of Wiwilamehkw...
...inter viewing the President of the U.S., he cried: "A great guy! A wonderful man!" Back from interrogating a Jack the Ripper, he foamed: "A great guy! A wonderful man! Boy, how he can cut throats." On at least one occasion, Reynolds' emotional warmth has given him special insight. Unlike some of his U.S. colleagues, he did not, either publicly or privately, write England off the books when the Luftwaffe seemed to have London groggy. His copy exhibited a hot faith in the British capacity to win through and a hot impatience with British censorship, which kept him from...
Most important in Kipling's later stories and poems is Kipling's "vision of the people of the soil. It is not a Christian vision, but it is at least a pagan vision-a contradiction of the materialistic view: it is the insight into a harmony with nature which must be re-established if the truly Christian imagination is to be recovered by Christians. What he is trying to convey is ... not a program of agrarian reform, but a point of view unintelligible to the industrialized mind." And profoundly vitalizing that point of view are Kipling...
...Girdler Mind. Eagle-bald, hawk-nosed Tom Girdler, at 66, has one possession of which he is inordinately proud-a mind of his own. Most readers will find its self-revelations the most interesting part of Tom Girdler's autobiography. The pugnacious author often mistakes shallowness for insight ("With free water and cheap soap who really is obliged to live in filth?"), but in his wrestling with the problem of Labor & Management he tackles squarely one of the thorniest problems in the U.S. The conclusions he has reached are important, not because they are Tom Girdler...