Word: insight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rembrandt didn't see the vistas that our astronauts have seen. Frankly, I would like to work with these composers who write crazy music, but they are terribly isolated. They should collaborate with performers; then, instead of looking to new instruments to produce new sounds, they would develop insight into existing instruments. I think it would be nice to particinate in the new movement, to make it more sane...
Perhaps Sontag's greatest insight concerns the relationship of a photograph to its own context. She comments, "as Wittgenstein argued for words, that the meaning is the use--so for each photograph." She focuses attention on this use, to the immediate use--whether in a gallery or a newspaper, whether captioned or not--and to the societal use, to the time, place, and culture depicted in the photograph. She explores the different perspectives on photography held by people in the Fifties and the Seventies, explores the different reactions to photography in China and the United States. And she concludes that...
While breathing their reclaimed air and drinking their reclaimed water, the students (who are being paid $3 per hour for their trouble) are performing other duties that will give space scientists an insight into the behavior of crews on long space missions. Each man is assigned daily make-work chores, such as reading instruments, following instructions radioed in from outside and manipulating controls. At regular intervals, they take one another's pulse, respiration and blood pressure or enter a medical instrument unit that enables physicians outside the cabin to perform a remote-controlled medical checkup...
...Chicago conference on psychedelic drugs, Dr. Donald R. Jasinski of the National Institute of Mental Health reported that he had produced LSD-like symptoms with tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), one of the purified active ingredients in cannabis. The test patient, he said, developed visual hallucinations, distortions of sensory perception, loss of insight, muscle rigidity and muteness. "He later related that he saw himself shrivel down to a doll, and witnessed his own funeral," said Dr. Jasinski. To Dr. Harris Isbell of the Federal Addiction Research Center in Lexington, Ky., Dr. Jasinski's experiments "definitely indicated that the psychotic effects...
...playing a text about an individual's realization that progress is an illusion and a cheat. Shuman is playing an elaborate directorial conceit concerning the corporate bankruptcy of American life. Where the juxtaposition of these characters might create tension, it begets doubt, and where it might suggest final insight, it conjures up only a conceptual mis-match...