Word: insight
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...everyone hard, but himself the hardest ("To be on the wire is life; the rest is nothing"), waking up with Dexedrine and cigarettes--a tortured, uncompromising bastard. He is also a song-and-dance man, who doesn't know "where the bullshit ends and the truth begins." "I got insight into you, Gideon," says the actor playing the stand-up comic, who exists in the movie to say the following lines: "There's a deep-rooted fear of being conventional... the dreadful fear that you're ordinary--not special." All That Jazz is about Joe Gideon's confrontation with death...
...strategy can be formulated, it is essential to take a serious look at the premises underlying our strategic posture as well as that of our most formidable enemy, free of the presumption that just because we happen to have been the first with nuclear weapons, we have a unique insight into their nature...
Jaymie Potts '83, Danby's roommate, said, "armchair missionary work" is effective and sufficient for many people, adding that she "gained insight at Urbana. I can do something at home with prayer and money." Potts works for "Evangalism in Communist Lands," an organization that sends sections of the Bible that are hidden between the pages of personal letters to Christians in the Soviet Union. Agreeing with Potts, Chris Smith '80, president of the HRCF, explained that God instructs every Christian to perform a specific role, although not necessarrily that of a missionary--an idea that several others also mentioned...
Styles of class leading vary considerably. In the "classical" case method technique (though few if any B-School professors could be placed easily in this category), the professor sits back and lets the students discuss the various facets of the case on their own. He offers no guidance or insight, trusting the students to learn from one another...
...supplied shelves. Time to be nice to all those people who took notes in the classes you slept through. Time to blame your parents for entertaining you over vacation, instead of letting you work. Time to talk about taking exams before Christmas and then realizing in a spasm of insight that you would fail. Time to put in your first appearance at breakfast...