Word: insights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...historians of the next century will be a lot more accurate in their portrayal of how people looked and spoke. But it is naive to believe that the way Caspar Weinberger answers a Ted Koppel question about America's stake in the Persian Gulf could provide the same candid insight that is available in Dean Acheson's letters to his daughter on the same subject during the Iranian crisis 41 years...
...other major television ministries. While waiting to see Oral Roberts at his university in Tulsa, Dolan came upon the famous faith healer, his pants rolled up, knee-deep in a medium-size artificial pond, where he was anointing 200 of the faithful. Recalls Dolan: "That scene gave me an insight into the impact of these television preachers on their followers...
...Hull and Riley, getting an insight into Jim Bakker proved a bizarre experience. As the pair interviewed the controversial PTL founder at his home in Gatlinburg, Tenn., the questions inevitably became sensitive. Bakker grew livid. Recalls Hull: "His eyes smoldered. He got more fidgety. Then he leaped from his living-room chair and dashed to the kitchen in a huff. I started to follow after him, but was dissuaded by Bakker's cadre of supporters, who said a prayer for us." To many of Bakker's admirers, reporters seemed to need straightening out. "I endured long lectures by Bakker...
...recent piece in the conservative magazine "Insight" proclaimed this the year of the crimebusters. District Attorneys in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia have all provided newspapers with headlines as they bring in one successful indictment after another. In the process, political corruption and organized crime have been death severe blows...
...metaphor. It is not enough for an artist to be right-minded on even the most potent political issues of his day. To earn a lasting place in literature, to rank with Ibsen or Shaw or Brecht, he must also demonstrate subtlety of craft, power of language and insight into character -- and probably must reach beyond his immediate context into other realms of the real world or imagination. Significantly, after the autobiographical catharsis of 'Master Harold' . . . and the Boys (1982), which reflected his formative bond as a white youth with a black father figure, Fugard has moved into brave...