Word: insights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...poetry of Audre Lorde demonstrated the lucid insight of a woman who is able to step back from her situation and observe--but never for too long. Because she, too, is black, feminist, lesbian, and intellectual, her consciousness and anger toward her everyday struggles and those of people like her are always at a high level. As reflected in her poetry, this awareness shocks, devastates, and clears the way for a new order of thought and action in a way the evening news cannot rival...
...expressionless face and white shoulders jammed into the stiff bodice like an ice cream into its cone, the sequence of forms pinned together by accents of blue on her cap, her dress, her scissors ribbon and the feathers of the shuttlecock- to realize the truth of Rosenberg's insight: "The world that Chardin imposes on his figures is a closed world, a stopped world . . . a world at rest, a world of Indefinite duration...
...second factor rather suddenly broke upon all of us: namely, the oil price explosion and the insight that energy would become rather scarce much more quickly than anybody had foreseen. It misled a number of governments to seek refuge-because they had to pay high energy prices-in printing even more money and creating even more inflation. This led to an upheaval in the fabric of the world economic system. I would prefer not to call it a system any longer. It is more a constellation than a system. At least it is a very unsystematic system...
...directors follow two high school basketball stars, a black from Brooklyn and a small-town Wasp from Lebanon, Ind., as they endure the victories and defeats of senior year. The overall message is a real doozy: sports are a metaphor for society. From this profound insight, the film embraces all the sociological idiocies that Albert Brooks satirized in Real Life...
...same terrain? Because, as Author Horace Freeland Judson makes clear in his extraordinary lay history of molecular biology, there is far more to DNA than Watson and Crick. Indeed, molecular biology's beginnings involved so many characters and subplots, so many false starts and flashes of insight, that it has all the elements of an epic detective story...