Word: insights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...taken seriously. It was somewhat akin to reading a sociological study of elevator passengers. Arlen also wrote a great deal about news and how television had changed the way we receive our information, and about Vietnam coverage and other such "news" events. He wrote well and with great insight. Suddenly there was meaning in the mundane...
When Cohen, Greenhouse and Pressler get back together after a few weeks of separation, their music sounds as fresh as if it were their first tour. Each of the three brings his own insight to every performance: after 25 years, they have developed enough familiarity and confidence to follow one another's inspirations as they occur. The result is an ever-new sound on stage. Greenhouse comments. "When we play the Ravel Trio for our 30th anniversary, it won't sound anything like the way we played it on our 25th...
...great deal about the trade. "From eight until ten every morning, we'd read the papers and talk about politics," Eidenberg recalls. "It was a one-on-one seminar in American politics in the fifties and sixties." For the man who was educated in the Midwest. Hardeman's insight into Texas hardball politics "was a real eye-opener. It was important for me to realize that politics was tough...
...ride-along program, now in its tenth year, still receives much praise. "The program is great because it gives the students some insight into the police side of things, where the whole process begins." Tony G. Paolillo, commander of the Cambridge Police, explains...
Mary Mebane is lecturer in composition at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. The two passages on these pages are excerpted from her just published autobiography, Mary (Viking; $12.95). A lifelong teacher of literature who was born in Durham County, N.C., in 1933, Mebane in her book recounts with insight, compassion and anger what it was like growing up female and black in the South before the civil rights revolution began...