Word: insights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bunch of Harvard faculty members what books influenced their thinking and publish the results. Not much work is involved: pass around a few questionnaires; and then call a publisher eager to publish a book plugging other books. The result is this book, a rambling, pretentious mishmash of egoism and insight that is, ultimately, hard to hate...
Still, Higher Learning is valuable for its survey of the state of American higher education. It also makes fascinating reading for those Bokologists who have the time to read the book and want to gain some insight into the mind of Harvard's once and future president...
...evident on Today, where she will do pieces on such atypical topics as men who have been the prime rearers of their offspring and the psychological effects that adopted children have on parents. "My hope with TV," explains Steinem, "is always that you can offer some fact or insight that the person on the other side of the tube would not otherwise get." Not to mention the other...
Another spokesman contacted this week refused to comment on whether Reagan had planned his vacation before or after informing Harvard he would not attend. But this spokesman also offered some insight into Reagan's psyche. "It is not easy to be President of the United States. I mean he is a very, very busy...
...times he can be wildly ironic, as when he meticulously preserves in his bathroom the teeth, fingernails and ear that have molted, and then jokes that "the medicine cabinet's now the Brundle Museum of Natural History." At other moments he can lurch from irony to insanity to Kafkaesque insight. "I'm an insect who dreamed he was a man, and loved it." "Help me," he tells Veronica. "Help me be human." Alas, she has her own problem. She is pregnant -- but with Seth's child or Brundlefly...