Word: insights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reporter Lubell, 44, who has been ringing doorbells since 1948, has been bitten by three dogs, taken for a masher by housewives, a salesman by husbands, and once for a C.I.O. spy. But he has also rung a new bell in political reporting: by combining shoe leather with scholarly insight, he predicted both the Eisenhower victory ("possibly by a landslide") in 1952 and the Democratic recapture of Congress...
...raged around their contents. At this point, however, it might be healthy to stand back a little from the din and furor and clouds of dust and try to appreciate the scriptures of the Brotherhood simply from the point of view of what they offer to religious thought and insight. They represent an experience which has been repeated often enough in history-the experience of the typical nonconformist who combines, by a strange and wonderful alchemy, an inner quietude with an outer fanaticism, and whose sense of God is a sense of burning fire as well as of radiant light...
...hymns of the Qumran sect, now completely translated and accessible to the layman for the first time, give readers an authentic feeling of what the scrolls are like. They also offer a moving insight into an ancient mode and mood of worship as well as haunting echoes of Biblical psalms. Excerpts...
...personal, the viewpoint biographical, and yet the tone is often that of a Dos Passos report to the nation. Perhaps because of the relaxed tone, perhaps because of the form, the reader does not expect any more of the story than he gets. A mood and perhaps an insight are offered, and whether or not this is enough, it is unquestionably all there is or can be in the nature of the piece...
...progress or else considered it beside the point, Toynbee gave history not only a pattern but a spiritual end. He reached the conclusion that man's real history is religieus history and that civilizations are really nothing but steppingstones in man's progress to deeper spiritual insight. Yet Toynbee, an Anglican in childhood, always showed himself so ready to range various prophets, gods and philosophers alongside Christ that the question inevitably arose just what kind of Christian he was. That question is more fully answered in his new book, An Historian's Approach to Religion (Oxford...