Word: insight
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Socialists are opposed to Western European union-unless, of course, such a union could be dominated by the Socialists (see INTERNATIONAL). In Bonn last week, German Socialist Leader Kurt Schumacher gave the reasons for his party's stand. He also furnished his audience with an interesting insight into the workings of the Socialist mind...
...view with alarm the Psychology Department's current crop of educated pigeons. Professor B. F. Skinner has spent the winter teaching his birds to play ping pong, tell time, and pick out tunes on the piano. He claims the experiment will help increase our insight into human behavior: what makes us suspicious is the speed and interest the pigeons have shown in their studies...
...attempts the difficult description of the relationship between a man and his wife as it finally disintegrates. Unfortunately he has worked in a couple of goldfish which weaken rather than strengthen the story: the characters are warped to fit the symbol, rather than the symbol developing naturally out of insight into their behavior...
...penetrating insight and formidable ratiocination, which are so characteristic of the student council, which was irrefutably realized when notices, in regard to Lowell House nominations, were posted on a Saturday ("the previous day") and a Sunday, days when the dining-hall is crawling with residents who have breathlessly waited for the week-end just so they could spend Saturday and Sunday doing nothing but eating delicious food at Lowell House...
Miss Freud, daughter of the late Sigmund Freud, described the value of psychoanalysis in developing better citizens and better parents. She pointed out how recognition and understanding of childhood drives gives parents insight into their children's motives for behavior...