Word: insights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this framework, Paul Brodeur blends psychological insight and historic parallel to create a portrait of the alienated man in the nuclear age. Harry Brace is not merely the familiar figure who feels estranged just from his own society. He wants out of the whole organized world...
...universe in its totality can be final which leaves these other forms of consciousness disregarded.... They may determine attitudes though they cannot furnish formulas, and open a region though they fail to give a map.... Looking back on my own experience, they all converge towards a kind of insight to which I cannot help ascribing some metaphysical significance. The keynote of it is invariably a reconciliation. It is as if the opposites of the world, whose contradictoriness and conflict make all our difficulties and troubles, were melted into unity...
...orphaned at 15, addicted to narcotics at 16. He went to school just long enough to learn Braille, at 17 struck out with a trio; soon he was in Seattle playing ersatz Nat King Cole, and he kept at it well into his 20s. Then, in a flash of insight, he decided to be himself. He began singing and playing his wailing mixture of rhythm and blues, jazz and shoutin' gospel music. "What they call 'soul music...
...Inner significance of other lives exceeds all our powers of sympathy and insight...
...surgeons of old had some success in using part of a man's own arm to rebuild a nose or ear, but as early as 1597, Gasparo Tagliacozzi of Bologna wrote with great insight that "the singular character of the individual entirely dissuades us from attempting this work in another person, for such is the force and power of individuality." Three centuries later, Charles Claude Guthrie and Alexis Carrel learned the wisdom of this judgment. With great virtuosity, they proved that organ grafts between animals were surgically possible. Guthrie even succeeded in grafting a second head onto...