Word: insights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...engravings by Goya and Delacroix. Blake's illustrations of passages from the Old Testament are reminiscent of the zealous poetry found in his "Prophetic Books." The engravings, especially one called "The Fire Of God Is Fallen From Heaven," contain tortuous, Signorelli-like figures which show the artist's fanatical insight when dealing with the Scriptures. Blake's line is firm and decisive, expressing his sincere and dynamic mysticism...
Over the rest of the story hangs a question mark that may decide von Horvath's insight as a novelist of his time: How prophetic is the lance-corporal's gradual disillusionment with the Nazi creed? First crack in his faith comes during an undeclared war on "a weak, incompetent nation, with a deplorable system of government." Wounded and permanently disabled while trying to save his captain under machine-gun fire, he discovers that the captain deliberately committed suicide in preference to looting, shooting prisoners, bombing women, children, wounded. When Nazi indifference to individuals robs...
...most dramatic portrait is that of Olympias, wife of lusty, roughneck Philip II, mother of psychopathic Alexander the Great. Her sinister and violent career has always given historians the creeps. But no historian has shown so shrewd an insight into her character as Laura Riding. She poses a daring speculation: Was Olympias perhaps a noble woman embittered and corrupted by her coarsely disappointing husband? Likewise the career of Cleopatra becomes a seductive peg on which to hang the thesis that women are pretty much what men make them...
...cannot but send a word of thanks for your courage in reporting the recent goings-on of the Buchmanites ("Oxford Groupers") on the Pacific Coast with such insight and accuracy [TIME, July 31]. I know I speak the minds of many plain, ordinary church members, who hesitate to sound anything like a harsh note . . . when I say that the ballyhoo of these spiritual high-pressurists fills them with something akin to nervous suspicion and mistrust...
...Angel Island and swore to tell the whole truth. Alfred Renton Bryant ("Harry") Bridges proceeded to tell more about himself than anyone had told before. Because he is the most potent and feared Laborite in the western U. S., Bridges on Bridges was bound to furnish 1) news, 2) insight into the innards of Leftist Labor...