Word: insights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...yesterday as President of Smith College, decided to leave Harvard last year there were a lot of disappointed people in Cambridge. They already knew what the Smith selection committee had found out--that Professor Wright was a remarkable administrator, a fine teacher, and a man who had a real insight into educational problems...
...Russians, although not usually inclined to be sympathetic with the frailties of man or hippopotamus, have come to share this insight of Poet T. S. Eliot. As a result, the world last week was the richer by one of the rare instances of East-West cooperation in years, and may soon be richer by one baby hippopotamus...
Thirty-five proctors have taken up residence in 15 dormitories in time to offer shrewd insight and old saws on College life to incoming freshmen and to make sure that the men of '53 get their (chaperoned) dates out of the rooms...
...erect before the instrument and in full command of it. His wrists are rigid and his bony fingers strong and sure...Not only does he play such numbers [as the Paderewski Minuet in G] completely and correctly, seldom if ever missing or muffing a note, but he evidences keen insight into the composer's intent by subtle shadings of interpretation...[When] he tackled a bit of Chopin...I was downright floored. I knew he played well-but not that well...
Week by week the Soviet satellite states are giving their Roman Catholic priests and nuns fresh insight into the problems of the early Christians...