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Word: insights (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...generally excellent. Camera work adds much to the mood of the film, and usually relies upon darkness and shadow to accompany the drama. Jane Eyre has probably received its classic film treatment in this version, which retains the novel's exciting pace and a good deal of its insight. The appeal of the film, however, does not rest solely on a fine performance or lively drama. Despite its confused, mysterious overtones, Miss Bronte's novel is drawn along clear, simple lines. Her characters, once their secrets are uncovered, are easy to understand and she leaves no loose ends to contradict...

Author: By Drnnis E. Brown, | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/9/1954 | See Source »

...Soviet bigwigs-with the exception of Malenkov himself-and hundreds of lesser wigs gathered with members of Moscow's foreign diplomatic corps. As the evening wore on and tongues loosened by vodka and champagne began to wag more freely, the Westerners were able to get a significant insight into the frictions chafing the present sons of the revolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Mud in Your Eye | 1/11/1954 | See Source »

According to Boeing officials, their program has resulted in mutual advantage for them and the colleges. The professors go back to teach with more knowledge of industry and the practical aspects of engineering. This added insight helps them turn out efficient graduate engineers without the "traditional green of new sprung college men." A. A. Soderquist, administrative engineer in charge of the Boeing program, calls the summer study plan "a long range gamble that has already started to pay off. Even if we weren't getting better oriented men, just the work the professors do during the summer makes the program...

Author: By Stephen L. Seftenderg, | Title: Aviation Begins Its 2nd Half-Century | 12/17/1953 | See Source »

...much of its potential impact. Every line is grossly shouted; there is no shading. As the father, Laurence is too noble--Yeats was not trying to write a tragedy of a noble man fallen, but a picture of a man groveling and depraved, even during his brief flashes of insight into the hopeless nature of his life. And Russell as the son is too wide-eyed, too earnest...

Author: By Richard H. Ullman, | Title: Two Plays by Yeats | 12/12/1953 | See Source »

...there anything more fantastic to think for a moment that the research efforts--the imagination and industry and insight--of the thousands and thousands of trained minds that make up the college and university faculties of this country are concerned for anything other than the discovery of truth and so ultimately for the fulfillment and increase and enrichment of everything that is good and healthy, rewarding and productive, in the whole of the national life?" he asked...

Author: By David L. Halberstam, | Title: Pusey Rebuts Red Baiting Education Critics | 12/5/1953 | See Source »

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