Word: insights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Will the insight of a Willkie or a Stevenson offset the end of insight a McCarthy inspires?...this is the largest challenge the American liberal world has faced, and the payment for meeting it effectively is more than mere survival in an age of world turmoil. It holds out the hope of an inward enrichment of culture and perspective, a "coming of age,"...which in its own right is well worth fighting...
...good reason for this is that Catton conscientiously strives to find the fresh detail or revised insight that can make each old story new. Prodigious is the only word for the research that went into his centennial trilogy: all the battlefields revisited, 3,500 different sources consulted, 9,000,000 words of fresh notes. Like its two predecessors, The Coming Fury (1961) and Terrible Swift Sword (1963), Never Call Retreat can be read pleasurably and usefully even by someone familiar with all of Catton's other works...
...Insight, a "magazine of contemporary expression," arrived on the Cambridge newsstands this summer boasting an attractive cover and a high price. But the content does not meet the expectation of the trappings, for hard work is required to find anything of value among the poems and prose of Insight...
Such article just begin to approach the idealism of the editorial. Struggling magazines can not change the world, but they can provide a forum for writers who are worthy, but unpublished. By lowering its sights and raising its standards, Insight could manage to stay...
...long-lasting loss of respect throughout the world. Kennedy best expressed this concept when he said, "What is prestige? Is it the shadow of power or the substance of power?" The Bay of Pigs was far from a total loss for the U.S., for it provided Kennedy with an insight into foreign affairs and decision making that had been absent from American Government for almost a decade...