Word: insight
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...first principle, a definition of competence, postulates that the academic, by virtue of long study, has superior insight into the problems falling within his field, and consequently, deserves a large say in their solution. Well accepted in suburbia, the precept has protected urban school professionals from mayors and and communities for generations...
...BOYS IN THE BAND. In recent sea sons, homosexuality has surfaced as a dramatic theme, and Mart Crowley's uncompromising drama deals with it coolly and honestly, lancing bitchy merriment with desolating insight. An expert cast plays the host and guests at a homosexual birthday party with skill and grace...
...share only one common fault, perhaps an inevitable consequence of the production's drive for lucidity: at one time or another, most of the actors show a tendency to declaim rather than converse. As a result, the overall pacing of dialogue is sometimes slowed, and an occasional moment of insight or laughter is dimmed by pretentious delivery. Far more often, however, the line readings succeed in translating Shaw's stylized dialogue exchanges into natural and convincing scenes...
First, on Monday, April 29, we were presented with John Herfort's news "analysis." Along with some genuine insight into the present condition of the Democratic party, Mr. Herfort also let drop the "analysis" that supporters of Senator Eugene McCarthy were essentially neurotics, whereas Robert Kennedy '48, is the candidate of "new ideas" who would bring a freshness to American politics. The judgment about the first point must be left to those who know McCarthy supporters, although it can be said that Senator McCarthy's ideas about foreign policy and the CIA show great freshness, and that, on domestic policy...
...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...