Word: insight
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Women at Yale offers only occasional insight into the problems it probes. The problems, though important, are shopworn, and the book's analysis fails to reveal many new dimensions. From weekend mixers to bed and breakfast is not actually the one small step for Yale men and the giant leap for womankind that it was advertised...
...also keeps up on the thinking of other scholars: Son David, 5, a Montessori school pupil, and Daughter Caroline, 7, who each morning gets a ride on the back of Daddy's bicycle to Manhattan's racially integrated Public School 9. "Their kid's-eye insight," says Cory, "can be as valuable as any expert's opinion...
Gabor got the idea that led to his prize one day in 1947 while he was waiting his turn at a tennis court in Rugby, England. Out of a sudden flash of insight, he created a system of lensless, three-dimensional photography that became known as holography (from the Greek words for "whole" and "writing...
...requires no great amount of insight to see that there is something wrong in this protest, that there is in fact something wrong with the enormous decline in antiwar activity since 1970. The cause for protest, the war, remains, yet the student movement--the backbone of the antiwar movement--appears somnolent, if not moribund...
...team nine months. They interviewed more than 500 bankers, brokers and other sources and got additional reports from a score of Sunday Times correspondents from La Paz to Seoul. "At the stage where other papers are ready to publish, we're just beginning to dig," explains "Insight" Editor Barry. In the Philby story, for example, they did not rest their case after the cloak-and-dagger investigation was ended. They went on to examine Kim Philby's background and early life, and in so doing added the dimension of "insight" that characterizes the team's reporting...