Word: insights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exact definition of an adviser is equivocal, some idea of what constitutes one can be gained from the varied qualities demanded in his selection. The foremost qualification is interest in dealing with human beings; next come approachability, or the rare biological element of appeal, and insight into the total personality. To obtain response, an adviser must set up confidence through frankness, through fixing each man's aim and helping him to reach it. He ought also to gauge as best he can the attitude of the advisce toward his new environment. With these standards raised, there lingers the question...
Holcombe described it as "a real privilege" to get some insight into the government at work in this manner, and said that besides the usual trip to Congress the Institute would arrange meetings with cabinet officers and at least an inside look at the White House and other government offices...
...Reasons for this are twofold: 1) though SEC is full of career men, only a few top-of-the-heap jobs pay an adequate salary; 2) SEC is also full of bright young lawyers who are glad to starve for a year or two in order to get an insight into SEC procedure which makes it easy to land a good berth in Wall Street...
...poets to the U. S., from Yeats and T. S. Eliot to Sandburg and Edna St. Vincent Millay. Almost every contemporary English and American poet of distinction appeared in its pages or was involved in its battles. But although readers of A Poet's Life can gain some insight into modern poetry, may pick up minor items of literary information (such as Louis Untermeyer's smug dismissal of Eliot's first poems), they are likely to be left wondering how so much literary excitement could have been made so dull in the telling...
...growing social problems. From the College Summer Service Group in New York comes the announcement of a project providing thirty-five hours a week of work in the city's overcrowded, but little publicized districts. "Life in the raw" is what this group offers its workers, an insight into the poverty, ignorance, and superstition which slum areas breed...