Word: insights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lower lip. When the pilot ditched the plane, the ball turret was knocked off, the gunner somehow survived, but his mind was gone. Receiving these cases back in Ward 7, generally knowing little more about them than their names, ranks and serial numbers, Captain Newman approaches them with godly insight, and somehow Rosten manages to suggest with plausibility that his psychiatric hero is three-quarters Mr. Roberts and one-quarter Nostradamus...
Nizer has filled his book with courtroom strategy and insight. In a divorce case, a wife's plea for low alimony and a large property settlement generally means that she intends to remarry as soon as she gets her loot. Conversely, a demand for high alimony suggests that she has no immediate marriage prospects. Like the late Senator Joseph McCarthy, Nizer also favors waving a manila envelope full of "documents" to discomfort witnesses during crossexamination; the envelope is often empty. During direct examination of his client, he says, a good lawyer will stand...
...Once during World War I, Nephew Churchill leaned out of an upstairs window and, drop by drop, poured the contents of a chamber pot down upon the heads of his uncle, then Minister of Munitions, and Prime Minister Lloyd George. But Churchill's accounts are more anecdote than insight: he never really tries to explain what makes the old man tick. And sooner or later, since he is writing an autobiography, Churchill is brought back to the problem of talking about himself. He has a lot to mention and not much to say. As an officer in a camouflage...
...Passage to India is-not to put too fine a point on matters-superb. She has taken only the hard, tight plot of the book and fashioned of it a play crackling with enormous, concentrated tension, an exciting drama which yet retains much of the novelist's insight and generous wisdom...
...Smithsonian's biologist, Charles O. Handley, authority on African mammals, writing in the Washington Post: "Ardrey has approached his subject with rare insight. He has not suffered the restrictions or prejudices of any particular discipline. He has marshaled the facts with the precision of a scientist, has viewed them with the impartiality of a judge and has presented them with an arresting and intelligible style...