Word: insights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This land," the late Jack B. Yeats once said, "is full to the brim of all things that lend themselves best to pictorial memories." The land was Ireland, and no man ever painted its dancing skies and robustly sentimental people with greater insight or exuberance. Today, the fame of Poet-Brother William Butler Yeats has partly eclipsed his own, but if Jack Yeats is less known than he deserves, it is largely his own doing. He refused to have his paintings reproduced during his lifetime, exhibited rarely and reluctantly. Last week, four years after his death...
Electric Shocks. There is a good deal of Jean Kerr in Mary, Mary, a play that one critic described as "five characters releasing an author." The characters inhabit an unashamedly prefabricated plot (about a divorced couple who, of course, get together again), but it is full of humor and insight. All situation comedy is clockwork; what matters is who makes the clock. Like Jean Kerr, the heroine is a compulsive wisecracker: years ago, when her husband made his first tentative pass, she told him, "Let's not start something we can't finish in a taxi on 44th Street." Like...
Moses & Alfred. In the course of the book, Monty ranks a score of world figures from Moses to Mao Tse-tung on his highly personal report card. Moses "had the wisdom and the insight into human nature to realize that the best way to raise morale in an army is by victories in battle." Christ, "the greatest Leader of all time, gave His followers a set of principles and an unforgettable example ... He claims to be the light we need; no other man has ever made that claim." Jenghiz Khan and Oliver Cromwell receive high grades from Monty for their...
...wish I could report enthusiastically about James Purdy's latest work, The Nephew, But unfortunately this second novel lacks those outstanding qualities of insight and fantasy that made Malcolm, his first novel, so extraordinary...
According to President Kennedy, the members of the council, which also includes Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and calypso singer Harry Belafonte, "will bring to the Peace Corps the insight and experience of prominent individuals who are Interested in the role of the United States in world affairs...