Word: insight
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...play abounds in bright dialogue and amusing situations, and affords a remarkably clear insight into the picturesque London street-life of the day. The morris-dance is to be performed, and the incidental lyrics will be sung, to Elizabethan music...
...Kentuckians," Mr. Fox writes of his mother state and her people with such insight and sympathy as show him to be a true son of Kentucky and an affectionate brother to Kentuckians of all kinds. For in this story the author has acquainted us with the blue-grass country, as typical in its way as that where the Cumberland Vendetta flourished and Mr. Shivers came to his death at last...
...Cantabrigia Club. Mr. Fox prefaced his reading with a short sketch of the Kentucky mountaineer in order to make the stories more intelligible to those who were unfamiliar with this unique type of American character. Mr. Fox has portrayed this character in his stories with a clear insight and a fine sense of humore. His complete mastery of the dialect, from having been much among the mountaineers, and his understanding of their character, give his readings a peculiar interest and charm...
...Graduate School. He had a rare combination of qualities, both of mind and of temper, to make him a superior teacher of advanced pupils. For him classical learning was no mere accomplishment, a pleasing ornament for a man of letters, but an important branch of Anthropology, giving insight into the mental operations and intellectual and moral growth of ancient peoples. To him literature and monuments were records of life, and were to be interpreted by that and in turn themselves to interpret it. He said once, laughingly, that we called the Romans ancient, but when they were alive they thought...
...closely to the practice of his profession and rising by steady steps to a foremost place at the bar. He recently represented the Venezuelan government before the commission appointed by President Cleveland to determine the boundary between Venezuela and British Guiana, and it is largely owing to his clear insight and unceasing industry that the boundary dispute has been so satisfactorily settled...