Word: insights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lose it as quickly as possible. Eventually, De Sade could not put on paper crimes vicious enough to satisfy him. "To attack the sun," he wrote, "to deprive the universe of it or to use it to set the world ablaze -these would be crimes indeed!" Madness & Insight. During the French Revolution, De Sade was released from prison and found himself something of a hero because of his attacks on the established order. He was even made a judge. But the man who endorsed private crime was repelled by institutionalized murder. "Murderers, imprisoners, fools of every country and every government...
...current series of seminars at Manhattan's Five Spot, Monk, for one, will spend a whole night horsing around on his piano while his sidemen accompany him with all the enthusiasm of cops frisking drunks. On other nights he plays brilliantly and the sidemen follow with insight and devotion-but the applause is just the same, Monk's audience is far too devoted to him to worry about his music...
Fritz G. A. Eager then read the Class Poem, an original work of eloquence and insight. He in turn was followed by the Ivy Orator, Thomas J. Babe, Jr. Babe, to the delight of his audience, discussed at length the place of the "Wonk" at Harvard. Citing a wide range of authorities, including the Yale Program for the Advancement of Adult Propensities and Plato's Wonk, Babe urged kindness and understanding for the "wonk" and called on those present to regard him with tolerance if not affection. Do not pass a wonk, he pleaded movingly, without saying, "There, wonk...
...Objectives of a General Education in a Free Society recommended the creation of two new courses in science for the non-scientist. One was on the principles of biological science, the other on the principles of physical science. "Both courses are to be planned primarily to give students an insight into the fundamental principles of the subject and the nature of the scientific enterprise. In neither of them is a systematic factual survey contemplated. Both courses should communicate by discussion and example the methods by which scientific knowledge has advanced within the past four hundred years and should illustrate...
...there may also be another reason for the drift toward the departmental. In order to attain "an insight into the fundamental principles of the subject and the nature of the scientific enterprise," i.e., what the Redbook calls the "structure" of a science or of science, the student needs a thorough, and more likely, a profound, grasp of the components of the subject, of the bricks of the structure. The student has to know things before he can appreciate what they mean in a broader view...