Word: insights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...purely historical explanation, not even the excellent work by Montagu Modder, The Jew in the Literature of England, can answer these questions. The historical evidence must be combined with a detailed examination of the texts, literary insight and an exploration of myth. Mr. Rosenberg succeeds admirably, and From Shylock to Svengali is the most important and valuable study on the subject...
Rosenberg's investigation of the stereotypes which the nineteenth century produced is the heart of his book. He discusses the novels of Scott, Dickens, Trollope, Bulwer, and Eliot with wit and insight which manage to alleviate the depressing similarity of the characters he discusses and the dullness of many of the books...
...human brain, more efficient, and come up with the right answers. But in the field of inductive reasoning, I do not think machines will ever compete. When scientists formulate their hypotheses, for example, they work on this artistic level. They make their selection of hypotheses by inspired flashes of insight: hunches. I cannot tell you how this works, and I do not know that anyone can. But this seems to be the way that the human brain works, and I do not think a machine will ever be able to do it. A machine might come up by chance with...
...half-comic, half-sad dodges and devices of the old (Love among the Old Folk) or the grisly solution of the Negro problem in a U.S. gone totalitarian (The NRACP), Elliott goes straight to the heart of each matter, in language as clear and uncompromising as his own insight...
...unpopular with Teller's teen-age son Paul. Explains Teller: "No one would want the hydrogen bomb for a kid brother." But the rumpled, Hungarian-born physicist has small chance of escape. Many minds did indeed contribute to the U.S. H-bomb, but it was Teller's basic insight that made the finished product possible. Today, he teaches a freshman course in physics appreciation at U.C.L.A., has a couple of books under way, is investigating the peaceful application of nuclear energy...