Word: insights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House, in fact, has many inadvertently funy moments, and the frequent laughter of the audience need be traced neither to insensitivity nor to pscudosophistication. wistful and pretentious, the whole business seems at times a wicked parody of the Capote-McCullers school, the "fragile, searching" play with "flashes of oblique insight...
...book has some of the same faults as the old, but its 661 profusely illustrated pages glitter with sharp insight. Malraux has arranged them in four rambling essays, which cover the entire course of the world's art. The main theme of each essay is hinted by its title...
...neuroses for little Chester, and keep him confused, embittered and forever shying at life's challenges. That it fills him instead with great expectations and the drive to make them come true is a sign of the soundness and not the weakness of Author Gary's insight...
...magna cum laude for your article on the New York City public schools. It is an intelligent and moving insight into the tortuous process of adapting education from its aristocratic traditions into an instrument of service to a democracy . . . By faith, the public schools are trying to move cultural mountains . . . Some of the trigger-happy your critics article, should be and then required to take ' do a homework on postgraduate course at the feet of Principal [Margaret] Douglas and other devoted members of the system...
...cases of theft on the campus, the proctors handle the investigations themselves, and have a remarkably good record. Although none of them have had police training, their long residence in town has given the proctors insight to the Princeton mentality in regards to trouble. Often, students, find a riot dispersed before it has gotten fairly started because the proctors, sensing that trouble was brewing, were on the spot before it could develop...