Word: insights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some missionaries, the experience gave them new insight into what they wanted to do with their lives. Griffin, a biochemistry major before his mission, is now majoring in history and science, focusing on modern German history. "My desire to do pure science definitely changed, and I also wanted to interact with people," he says...
...lanky tenor named Franklin Spears, swigging a can of Lone Star, lends his insight. "The nice thing about barbershopping," he confides, "is you don't know what the guy singing next to you does for a living, and you don't care." Spears happens to be a justice of the Texas Supreme Court, and he gloats, "I've been here three days, and I haven't talked about a case...
...look at this conference, there are enormous numbers of persons who are not white males," Boyle says. "We've done very well. We invited [Harvard Professor of Law Derrick Bell, who is Black], and while he may not be a CLS adherent, he's nevertheless someone who appreciates CLS insight...
SEPTEMBER'S cover story, luridly billed on the front cover as "Bess Myerson: A Woman Undone By Love?," provides what may be the best insight into how the magazine now distorts the original lessons of its feminist foundation. After describing the turbulent events that led former Miss America Myerson to shoplifting, the article goes on to explain how Myerson's problems reflected larger problems with the women's movement...
...Blacks are sometimes sympathetic; just as often they bring trouble. The moral force of religion can be redemptive, or it can lead to violence and death. Women may prove enlightened, or they may be evil incarnate. Only one thing is certain: no good deed is ever forgiven, and that insight informs O'Connor's fictions with a perverse brilliance...