Word: insight
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...quite the figure Critic Leslie Fiedler once described as "The greatest science fiction writer ever," his imagination is certainly of the first rank. And if his prodigious saga falters, it is only after four volumes, when the journey has already provided a library's worth of merriment and insight. "In skating over thin ice," wrote Emerson, "our safety is in our speed." Until the final stretch, Farmer's velocity is breathtaking. -Peter Stoler
Observes Senate Minority Leader Howard Baker: "I came out of it a different person than I went into it. But I haven't sorted it out yet. You know, little flashes of insight here and there. But that is still too fresh to deal with." Yet, with the exception of John Connally, who declined to speak about his campaign at all, the other four major challengers did agree to review their experience in campaigning for the presidency. Unlike other political experts, these men have actually lived through the process...
...confident about her own gifts as she went along. Then she saw one "that shook me like wheels spinning. It was art, far better than mine. It showed a loose shingle on the barn roof and a cobweb in the field. I'd missed those details that added insight to the picture. I realized I lacked the genius to see more than other eyes...
...that those who disclose their inner lives basically crave acceptance. Public confession has increased, says University of Chicago Theologian Martin Marty, as the popular sense of God has diminished. Says Marty: "When you can't talk to God, you've got to tell a million people." That insight parallels one offered by Sociology Professor Todd Gitlin of the University of California at Berkeley: "The public has become the new priesthood of the confessional...
...moralistic voice of Savonarola echoes between sessions at the $2 window. Barich reports that during his six-week betting binge he never lost more than $128-or made more than $192. In fact, he gained far more. He wrote an enchanted book and found a soul-sustaining insight: "What was any renaissance but a sudden bias in favor of hope?" Readers can only be biased in favor of more from this gifted centaur...