Word: insights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...develop for expressing himself falls however because of the philosophy involved and on the author's unsuitable prose the style. The philosophy falls along along the way, and the plot helds little interest but the book proves to be worthwhile due to the depth of the author's psychological insight. His perception of the main character's mind is convincing in parts and provides the only interest in the novel...
Professor Spencer's course, and his interpretation of the Shakespearean drama were a rare and happy combination of academic interest and penetrating insight into the best of Shakespeare. The course for me proved a rewarding experience and an inspiration in appreciation. Much of this was due to Professor Spencer's own keen perception, his with, and his understanding of Shakespeare, and his brilliant capacity for imparting his vast knowledge to his students...
...Letter to Three Wives. Some witty insight into three marriages headed for the rocks, with Paul Douglas, Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern (TIME...
...directly touched by this affair-the Rogers family, Ezekiel's secretary, Bessie Mathews, and her hard-working brother, Luther, who tends bar at a hotel in Citrus City and later goes to work in a shipyard. Author Moon writes of people like Luther with great warmth of insight and a fine ear for inflections of speech. On the other hand, there is something a little too Galahad-like about the radical Negro intellectual, Eric Gardner, whom President Rogers is finally called on to defend against Cal Thornton...
...difference shows up in the relative emotional punch of the two pictures. "Command Decision" is no waste of time; it is often funny and occasionally penetrating. It is well above the usual wild-blue-yonder movie. But it has been sufficiently made-up and costumed until its insight has been submerged under a lot of carefully cleaned-and-pressed brass...