Word: insights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Those of us who have faith in social science believe that this "modern" approach may eventually yield a new vision because it uses new technical and philosophical devices for organizing and formulating our insights into human nature. We cannot plausibly contend that a mere increase in the number of observers who can find publishers will expand this vision, unless social science can offer us a form which will give these multiple minor insights a cumulative effect. Without such a form, each insight will be returned to the society from which it sprang, without affecting that society or making possible...
...Farnsworth's book is anything, it is a plea for intelligence. But as a plea for intelligence it fails to be an example of the utility of such intelligence. It gives neither evidence nor insight nor articulation to the psychiatric outlook, but instead requires the reader to explode a series of verbal bubbles
...again. In 1956, after her husband Playwright Charles MacArthur died (their daughter Mary died of polio in 1949), Helen told reporters that she was thinking of retiring. But after reading Time Remembered, she changed her mind. She threw herself into rehearsals with her old-time energy, got a special insight on how to play the Duchess while listening to a recital on a virginal (a 17th century harpsichord). "Suddenly it hit me," she says. "I'd been playing the old Duchess like pounding a bass drum. But she was like that music-dainty, airy, tinkling...
Mysticism: 1) The doctrine or belief that direct knowledge of God, of spiritual truth, etc., is attainable . . . in a way differing from ordinary sense perception or the use of logical reasoning. 2) Any type of theory asserting the possibility of attaining knowledge or power through faith or spiritual insight. 3) Hence, vague speculation...
With this volume, Wilson's game of intellectual hooky is certainly up. The book is a sequence of unblinking non sequiturs, half-fashioned logic and firm disregard for the English language. The merit of The Outsider was that it brought fresh insight to such diverse figures as Shaw and Hemingway, Van Gogh and T. S. Eliot, by casting them in the role of questing near-metaphysicians at the bedside of modern man. The tragic dilemma, as Wilson developed it, was that the Outsider had outdistanced the comforting illusions of everyday society while falling short of the luminous serenity...