Word: insights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...insight into Gamal Abdel Nasser's temperament and his capacity for decision and doubt, from his own Philosophy of the Revolution...
...Clinic, organized in 1953, is now studying 50 retarded children under five, observing their activities and actually treating some afflictions. For Mongolism, however, the commonest single cause of mental retardation in infants, there is no cure. The doctors can only hope that careful studies will give them insight into its causes. In the meantime, they can treat many of its physical symptoms. Physicians use antibiotics to combat the susceptibility of Mongoloids to infections. Surgeons may correct heart conditions, the chief cause of debility and death. In 1900, Mongoloids rarely lived beyond infancy. A Mongoloid born in 1956 may expect...
...airmen expressed surprise at the charges. In the past, the trigger-jumpy Russians have first shot down non-Communist planes in the vicinity of their borders, lodged their protests afterwards. If a U.S. plane had indeed been over Soviet territory for 2½ hours, it was a revealing insight into the state of Soviet defenses...
Painters' Painter. Ironically, the basic elements of Rembrandt's painting-his superb brush stroke and bold handling of color, his insistence on psychological insight, his dramatic use of light and shadow-long kept him in eclipse. Though in his own day Velasquez thought nothing of borrowing a pose from Rembrandt's Negress Lying Down (he used it for his own Venus), Rembrandt's reputation became primarily the custody of painters in later generations. In their hands, Rembrandt's work has become one of the richest lodes in Western...
...Cello. Magazine circles were little better. The New Republic was run by "kept idealists," and the Nation was staffed "by men and women who were suffering the change of life." Mencken's high jinks masked low insight, according to Angoff, and Mencken never fully understood even the writers he championed, e.g., Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, Sinclair Lewis. He thought Henry James "was an idiot, and a Boston idiot to boot, than which there is nothing lower in the world, eh?" F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby was "poor stuff." Said Mencken of Hemingway...