Word: insights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reader is happy to find a recurrence of Mann's keen scientific analysis--his love for medical description and insight. The scene in which Krull evades military conscription by a self-induced epileptic fit is one of the most genuinely penetrating in the bok. The vividness induced by this scene glows with the reader for the remainder of Krull's fortunes, constantly assuring him that this man can indeed do anything...
...Cumming's story is a more ambitious attempt both in its stylistic devices and in its deeper search for his subject's psychic needs. Although Cummins shows some insight into the insecurity of a fatherless Negro boy, his experiments with style are not half so successful. In order to gain immediacy Cummins uses the present tense throughout his narration, a dangerous and difficult patli on which he slips occasionally, especially when attempting to introduce background information...
...home, the President obtained a $5,000,000 grant last year from Congress to put the U.S. on the world fair circuit. The aim: build world trade and good will. In its first year, the program did both: more than 12,000,000 visitors in 15 countries gained an insight into how Americans live, while 25,000 trade inquiries were received from foreign businessmen...
...Judges are but men and man's most piercing discernment of the future," the eminent judge said, "cannot see very far beyond his day, even when guided by the prophet's insight and the compassionate humility of a Lincoln...
...nothing in the book but slick self-pity and ears and eyes so gross and clumsy that they could not furnish credible continuity for a horror comic. But apart from its uproarious, if unintended, humor, the book has another significance. Author Fast's works offer an insight into the nature of the enemy. On that basis, Americans may reach the useful conclusion that the enemy is not so bright as is generally believed...