Word: insights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...means is Knowles a disinterested or stoic listener or speaker. He strives to shift and angle his body to maximize personal contact. One cannot help but be disarmed when the University's number two administrator eagerly leans forward to pass along a personal insight...
...what is journalism anyway? Original insight? No, it's institutionalized plagiarism.6 Reporters pass off others' observations as their own in almost every story they write. Sometimes these observations are preceded by a nod-to-protocol "some say." Sometimes they aren't. Does it really make that much of a difference to the reader...
...Alvarezes analyzed this clay in the late 1970s and showed it had a far higher content of the rare element iridium than ordinarily found in the earth's crust. It was this discovery that led Luis Alvarez to his momentous - insight. Comets and asteroids have high iridium content, he reasoned, and the clay layer could have been formed by the worldwide fallout of the material vaporized when an errant asteroid or, as most scientists now suspect, a giant comet smacked into the earth...
...could start by admitting that our '70s-era expectations were absurdly high. The body is not a reliable source of ecstasy or transcendental insight. For most of our lives, it's a shambling, jury-rigged affair, filled with innate tensions, contradictions, broken springs. Hollywood could help by promoting better uses for the body, like real sex, by which I mean sex between people who are often wrinkled and overweight and sometimes even fond of each other. The health meanies could relax and acknowledge that one of the most marvelous functions of the body is, in fact, to absorb small doses...
...baseball, who dominates the book, as Reston paints a complex portrait of a flawed but fascinating administrator a bit too taken with his own public image. Still, Reston indulges in too much quotation of Giamatti's orotund utterances on the cosmic meaning of baseball and provides too little insight into the off-the-field politics of the game itself...