Word: insights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bailyn's Ideological Origins of the American Revolution and Gordon Wood's The Creation of the American Republic. Those books covered an immense era with breathtaking skill. Few books on American history offer such a bravado assault on the origins of American society and do so with such consummate insight and originality...
...beyond her years, sees trouble coming from several directions, but not the sexual ambush by Mr. Flushing, whose wife owns the boarding house where she and her father stay and where Billy has fallen a wee bit behind in paying the bills. After this rude assault, Ellen has an insight about her corporeal self and that of women in general: "A Female Body is not just a piece of liver from the butcher . . . It is more like a musical instrument made of flesh and blood that has music waiting inside it but only for properly trained hands to coax...
...remain in academe, two share a publishing house and a paramour (Judy Geeson), and the most buffoonish (Nathan Lane) achieves the biggest success as a celebrity journalist. Theirs is not a "group" of friends but a crisscross of relationships, some close, some almost hostile despite a depth of mutual insight. They judge each other not by material attainments but by how closely each has clung to the ideals of youth...
...culprit has not yet explained his motives. College officials, however, have several hypotheses. "It was a wonderful, big pumpkin, and a challenge. Swarthmore students are always up for a challenge," Dickerson said, adding, "he hasn't given me any real insight into whether he needed the pumpkin or if he wanted to make...
...previous excerpts from books by Henry Kissinger, Jimmy Carter, Alexander Haig, Theodore H. White and Soviet Defector Arkady Shevchenko, by Executive Editor Ronald Kriss. "Before we choose a book to excerpt," says Kriss, "we always ask: Does it enlarge our knowledge of history; does it give us new insight into the way our world works?" Bonner's book combines both deeply personal and broadly historical elements. Says Kriss: "It is a story of two people living in terrible isolation, but also waging a heroic fight against a vast and monolithic state system. The title has it right: Bonner and Sakharov...