Word: insights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...What we dream of being able to do is to lay hands on the library of some average Roman of medium culture. That would give us a wonderful insight into Latin literature of that time. It is not impossible that we might even find the text of some Latin popular comedies, which are known to have existed but which have never been found...
...very little. Especially is the critical opinion of the worth of a fellow undergraduate a hazardous basis for just judgment. Just how much of the character-sketching done in last fall's reports on individual Freshmen written by that species of underclassmen known as Student Advisors possessed any real insight must remain a matter of conjecture...
...makes admirable reading. It is a direct and human story, normal and natural, told without a breath either of conscious advertisement, or of unreal humility. It is written with quick and nervous energy. There is much deft description, shrewd comment, and keen insight. All through it runs a virile loyalty, and a disciplined enthusiasm which marks the spiritual expert. It is skillfully condensed, giving a true perspective and a clear impression...
Just to tell you that the portrait of Sinclair Lewis on the cover of TIME, March 14 gives one the best possible insight into Elmer Gantry and the rest of Lewis' yammerings...
Revolt in the Desert. Colonel Lawrence tells what he did simply, occasionally with power, always with insight, often in words assembled like so many pearls; but not, on the whole, in a manner to sustain interest. Apparently the abridgment was intended to give the reader all the dynamiting and slaughter at the expense of paring down the Arabian milieu. This was a doubtful course?like abridging the Iliad into a penny dreadful about a wooden horse. Fortunately, Mr. Lawrence has done his own abridging and retained more than a modicum in the original nobler and broader strain. The book...