Word: insights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Late last week, the official Soviet news agency TASS announced an event that may offer further insight into Chernenko's condition: Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou will make an official visit to Moscow in mid-February. Because Papandreou is a head of government rather than a head of state, protocol requires only that he be received by Soviet Premier Nikolai Tikhonov. But Moscow has been courting Papandreou's socialist government assiduously of late, and Chernenko, health permitting, would almost certainly want to take part in Kremlin talks with the Greek visitor...
...suppose this is not to be expected from someone who gets his political insight from places where other people sit. Richard A. Bennett...
...most Harvard students, and they are largely correct. It's not so much that I object to my classmates' overwhelming decision to pursue law, business, or medicine--all worthwhile professions--as to the unthinking way in which many seem to hop on the assembly line. It is no new insight to say that Harvard students are conformists, nor would it be novel to note the insular nature of a laundry list of everyday student concerns, the food in the dining halls, the extension we need to get, the study card that has to be signed, the party in Quincy House...
...play the piano"), composers ("I really don't like Mozart") and pop music ("At her best, Barbra Streisand is probably the greatest singing actress since Maria Callas"). Often technical, and sometimes sycophantic, the book is perhaps best appreciated by Gould aficionados, but it gives an insight into the pianist's eclectic thought processes...
...Lonergan, 79, Jesuit philosopher and theologian whose championship of rigorous intellectual inquiry as a means of revivifying faith placed him among the foremost Christian thinkers of the 20th century; in Pickering, Ont. A demanding and temperamental teacher, the priest was the author of two densely reasoned, seminal texts: Insight: A Study of Human Understanding (1957) and Method in Theology (1972). Lonergan sought to reshape theological inquiry in light of modern scientific and philosophical advances...