Word: insights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Post at least the Hearst sheets. But it remained for the pride of Kansas City to garner both publicity and economy. Whoever is the power behind the throne in guiding Miss Talley through the mazes of an operatic career has a large amount of sagacity and a peculiar insight into the minds of what she may safety term "her public." It matters not at all if he visualizes her as a cross between a football manager and a Dartmouth undergraduate because nothing is so productive at the box office as a well advertised star--not even an excellent singer...
...might ask with what divine insight TIME believes itself to be endowed that it can read the motives in the mind of a boy who takes his own life. Is it not enough for a mother to lose her son without being universally held up to light as the cause for the deed ? Her letter, written in the performance of motherly duty, in all probability had nothing to do with the case. At any rate, it does not fall upon you to judge...
...that may be his lack, for in what he could understand he was struck by elements of really great drama and penetrating insight. The difficulties of language are as smoke surrounding a flame. Pirandello's thought, tinged with a profound yet tender pessimism, is in the truly grand manner. If he fails, it is only because he has attempted too much. And again his failure may be those of the translator and reviewer...
This is a book of many pages, beautifully written; of many people clearly seen and steadily sustained; of many places viewed broadly and with insight-Paris, the Riviera, Washington, D. C., besides Wyoming, Philadelphia and the theatres, studios, dance halls, hotels and philosophers' retreats of Manhattan. There are quaint minutiae-a sneeze in China as the possible origin of a Manhattanite's cold. There is no end of masticable thought and sharp aphorism; that civilization's aim is "to think like an angel but to function like a man"; that sexuality is either splendid or ugly, never...
...books, Professor Kuno Francke's "German After War Problems" is outstanding. Professor Francke's volume comments on the intellectual and moral revival of Germany since the war and gives an analysis of the forces which contributed to Germany's unexpectedly quick recovery since the war. Professor Francke's intimate insight into the German point of view has made this latest volume on post-war Germany particularly illuminating...