Word: insights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sometimes the author inserts a single, striking philosophic insight into a narrative passage. Writing of his love for foreign cities, he asks "and how came it that pleasure is so intertwined, so at home with Necessity?" Describing a mosque, he "sensed with deep joy the fusion of two great qualities: ecstasy and precision... For all this decoration is the dream of a master mathematician. As the line progresses and unwinds, it becomes the abstract expression--the distillation of all plants, all animals, and all thoughts...
...human history neither legal nor religious authority has been successful in stopping late adolescents from using their genltalla, either naturally or unnaturally as the case may be. If the latter, he speaks as a landlord rather than a collegiate official with wisdom and insight into the conduct of young men and women. In our society the bedroom is the normal place for such relations to occur. Surely, the Dean would not put himself in the uneasy position of sanctioning sexual intercourse between undergraduates in automobiles, motels, and the like merely because they were off-campus and not within his jurisdiction...
...gnarled old angel of death; Rufus amidst mystifying adult rituals at the funeral parlor where he goes to see his father. But too often a good beginning comes to naught. Scenes shot with a camera placed no more than knee-high to a grasshopper can supply kidsight without insight, and Michael Kearney, the eight-year-old newcomer cast and ineptly directed as Rufus, wears a grave, pinched expression that suggests little beyond the possibility that he has a loose tooth...
...private secretary and kept in touch with him for 25 years, and Santayana unburdened himself to Cory as to few others. Explaining why his philosophy seemed so cool, he once wrote: "Each passion or hope when alive sees hateful enemies in every other passion and hope, whereas calm insight sees in each the good to which it aspires...
...received nation-wide news coverage; it presumes to know exactly how Wallace will act and what his precise effect on Harvard students will be. Such an assumption is not axiomatic. To see how Wallace behaves in Sanders Theatre, in contrast to his hollow harangues before Alabama schools, may give insight into a man who, whether we like it or not, represents an important political faction in this country...