Word: insights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...statement released last week, Frohnmayer said, "We regret Mr. Kim's decision to withdraw from serving on this Endowment panel. ...His insight will be missed...
...when Martha describes her inferiority complex to her unsympathetic brother, we wonder why someone with such insight into her own problems has allowed herself to accept a humiliating, degrading station in life. "My so-called standards are what I've hidden behind to salvage my self-respect," she tells Dave, but her words sound artificial...
Mamet and director Noah Kupferberg have a common insight into the interpretation of the fairy tales: the characters in the tale might very well be aware of how insincere or even sarcastic they, and the other players, are being. The actors in The Frog Prince are playful--they take things less seriously than many audience members would expect. The prince, for example, is rightfully dubious when his servant tells him that he and his beloved fiancee are universally loved. "Sire," the servant says, "the people love her as yourself," and the prince rolls his eyes...
These academic complaints were not, however, deserving of censure, as Social Studies Chair David S. Landes has proposed. Although Patterson's diatribe was written with all of the charm and insight of a whiny kindergartener, it was well within the boundaries of legitimate academic debate...
Second, they provide a forum for artistic debate. This sounds bloated and silly, but an intelligent, experienced critic, even a peer, can sometimes give you a lot of insight into a particular branch of the arts. If more people responded to reviews (or if more reviews were stimulating enough to respond to), some lively debates could be generated...