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...split personality. One one level she overflowed with insight and self-understanding, with love and solicitude and a desire to serve; on another level she was beset with fears and terrors, riven with resentments, hating, as she says, both herself and others. She is afraid her friends will really find her out, and at the same time she is obsessed with the desire to have them see her as she really...
...appealing, comic Autumn Marathon (1979). It is about a teacher-translator trying to balance the requirements of his overextended double career with the equally pressing demands of a suspicious wife and a possessive mistress-a situation familiar to members of the Western bourgeoisie. The movie offers an agreeable insight into the life of the educated, privileged class in the Soviet Union...
...citation reads: With insight and elegance she has examined the imperfections of the market and revealed the inconsistencies of poverty and wealth, scarcity and abundance...
Lance Morrow's Essay on revenge [May 12] radiates ethical sensitivity, insight and common sense. Thank God for a voice of reason in the midst of all the rhetoric calling for massive retaliation -an act that surely would sow the seeds of yet other crises conceived in revenge. Firmness, yes; vengeance...
...Barber says, the press should spend more time examining the candidate's vision of the good life that will motivate him in office. It should pay more attention to how the candidate works with others, to the views he shares with other national leaders. That will give some insight as to how he will build coalitions when he is elected and how effectively he will govern-which is what elections are supposed to be about...