Word: insights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thank the court for insight...
...other documentary was equally superb. He went into the homes of two men in Chicago-one a salesman, the other an artist who had lost an arm in the Spanish Civil War-and let them tell the stories of their lives. It was natural, intimate, replete with insight-the kind of thing that television is uniquely equipped to do but which is seldom attempted and almost never so artfully achieved. At the end, viewers might have thought that they had just finished reading two brilliant novels...
Patriotic Gore, by Edmund Wilson. Northerners and Southerners are treated with equal insight and compassion in this vast exploration of Civil War writings...
...collections of his short stories have been published for the first time in English, and it is clear that both the complexity-and the startling beauty-of his writings derive from the fact that Borges rates poetical insight a good deal higher than analytical thought. "To think is to forget differences, generalize, make abstractions," he writes. "There is no exercise of the intellect which is not, in the final analysis, useless." Seeing Sharply. Borges' stories take place in a world that is half commonplace, half fantastic. Dreams occur within dreams; time loses its significance. What counts is momentary impulse...
Curtal had been an "unquenchable noise'' ranting against society with books as poorly argued as they were eloquent. With an egotist's insight into the vanities of other men, he had jeered at Stanhope as "the lonest lago, who kept his finger wet to catch the faintest wind of change"-a verbal wound that still bled after 40 years...