Word: insights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...know that his lectures will be an exciting contribution to the intellectual life of the University," White said. "They will stimulate not only philosophers, psychologists, and physicists, but all who recognize our present need for deeper insight into the confused relation between the sciences and the humanities...
...these narratives are, quite obviously, vehicles for Russell's own peculiar philosophical, social, and religious ideas. What they lack in subtlety, however, they more than make up in sharp wit and deep, sometimes searing insight into contemporary foibles. The aged philosopher must be thinking of recent mental panaceas when he mentions in his introduction that the "Nightmares" might better be entitled "Signposts to Sanity." At any rate, his book is unquestionably an effective mental antidote for the neuroses of those who have no wish to be well-adjusted. Russell writes, "Every isolated passion is, in isolation, insane; sanity...
...interested listener, following Conductor Walter's comments with the enclosed score, may discover a world of insight about music from this performance, although the Columbia Symphony Orchestra could use even more of Walter's help than it gets...
...pyre? Push it into a pit naked to rot with other bodies? Boil it until the flesh falls off the bones, and throw the flesh away and treasure the bones?" Primitive peoples discovered that, by devouring a dead body, they did not acquire its spirit; with that insight, as myths tell it, the original oneness of spirit and body, heaven and hell, was torn asunder. The ancient Egyptians spent half their lives preparing for the afterlife (some lucky corpses were sent to eternity in a glass shaft carved to represent the phallus of Osiris); at times it seemed...
...merely good, the play's chances seem slighter. A prettily draped Dorsetshire study of has-beens and never-weres, a Chekhov-flavored and slightly watery custard, A Day by the Sea is often nicely written, sometimes neatly observed. But it shows no very personal talent or original insight...