Word: insights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...COUPLE. The comic insight of Playwright Neil Simon gives hilarious credibility to a household of two husbands who find out - by living together - why their wives couldn't stand to live with them...
...excites everyone, partly because it is man's eternal second chance. Paradoxically, it seems to affirm what it is destined to refute, as one generation's wisdom inevitably becomes the next generation's folly. Without being overly profound or unduly grave, William Goodhart has planted this insight in the spine of his first play. In a rock-solid performance, Henry Fonda not only gives body to a role, but also substance...
Rare is the reporter who does not dream of some day writing a novel. Novelist Truman Capote, on the other hand, yearns to report. For a long time he wanted to raise reporting to an art by re-creating some event with a novelist's insight, sympathy and exactitude. The trouble was, he could not find the right topic. Then one day in 1959, he was leafing through the New York Times when he noticed a headline, EISENHOWER APPOINTEE SLAIN. He read the story of the senseless killing of Wheat Farmer Herbert Clutter and his family, and he suddenly...
Katzenbach praised the committment and concern of students protesting what he called "deadening conformity," but he suggested that student rebels often "dissipate the insight and the energy which ought better to be devoted to opposing" specific wrongs and problems...
...real story of Goldwater's landslide burial is that he did not lead his campaign. It is a story that still has not been told well enough. Shaddeg and many others have made the generalization; no one has yet furnished the details and the insight that wold make the generalization useful...