Word: insights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...excellent novel is just that: two of them by the same author form strong evidence that the world has another fine writer. Sylvia Ashton-Warner's first novel. Spinster, astonished critics last year with its power, insight, and. to use a phrase of her own, pride of word. The only reservation tenable was that since the author, a middle-aged New Zealand schoolteacher, had written of a middle-aged woman who taught school, it was possible that the force of her novel sprang from circumstance, not art. Incense to Idols removes this possibility...
...wine is "volcano's blood." The evening air is "cool as the breath from the heart of a melon." A sunset in Rhodes becomes a conflagration. This is the kind of thing Durrell does so well that he tends to overdo it. But, periodically, he lifts imagery to insight. Many have written of the preternatural brilliance and clarity of the Greek light, but Durrell sensitively isolates its effect when he calls Greece not a country but a living eye: "The traveler in this land could not record. It was rather as if he himself were recorded ... in the ringing...
...children from Manhattan's George Washington High School last night gave College officials and Faculty members an insight into what it is like to be a promising student in an unpromising neighborhood. After a visit to morning classes and an afternoon trip to M.I.T., the products of New York's Junior High School 43 program described their reactions to an unusual situation...
Society "must pursue the basic primary reasons for youthful violence," Judge Culkin maintained. But how does the execution of two teenage boys provide society with any insight into the basic primary reasons for their crime? Judge Culkin, it seems, hardly comprehends the reason behind the murder. His argument seems to hinge on the premise that the act was premediatated, that these youths have intentions comparable to those of gangsters...
Beside the early-resigned there are the early-fatalistic, who put together gangs more readily than novels. Here Goodman offers perhaps his best insight: a view of a delinquent as powerlessly struggling for life within, not resigned from, an unacceptable world. We are reminded of Dostoevski. As Goodman puts it, "On the streets, they feel worthless and abandoned; in the reformatory, they are accepted back home." This is "delinquency-in-order-to-get-caught," or less clumsily, crime for the sake of punishment that implies 'belonging...