Word: insights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some extent such a failure. But despite occasional moments of sentimentality, sequences of conventional childish pranks, and stock characters like fat, cruel aunts and foolish uncles, the movie is a sensitive and poignant expression of a little boy's dreams and frustrations. With an oddly appealing combination of keen insight and good, old-fashioned corn, it explores his reactions to the changes in his life during one summer...
...monumental tombs built for pharaohs in the latter part of the Old Kingdom (2980-2275 B.C.), contain the first known written record that man believed in a life after death. The Coffin Texts, which were composed for the tombs of noblemen rather than kings, express a more complicated insight: that man in the next world will be rewarded for his good acts and punished for evil ones...
...Escape vs. Insight...
...brutal misunderstanding of the so-called healthy world without ever sympathetically coming to grips with the tension implicit in the vague difference between normality and abnormality. Others have simply over dramatized the sensational aspects of the problem. The Mark manages to avoid these pitfalls. With a great deal of insight and considerable taste, it illuminates the crisis of a rehabilitated sex offender's adjustment to a normal environment...
President Kennedy sent a telegram to the Roosevelt Day Dinner, praising the A.D.A. as a "broker of ideas." In many periods of our history," the telegram said, "liberals have brought to bear on political problems special gifts of insight and imagination...