Word: insights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...profits have produced what many observers beleve to be a significantly novel popular psychology. Business men as a group have begun to realize that unregulated monopoly and labor exploitation are phenomena which must belong to a dead age if democratic institutions are to continue. In the light of this insight, they have voluntarily submitted to stringent regulation be governmental agencies. Wall Street has accepted the SEC; The I.C.C. dominates the field of railroads with the approval of big business. Such are isolated examples of a new spirit among capitalist leaders which indicates the possibility of a peaceful solution...
...occasional brutality; among the blacks, resignation, degeneration. He found French colonial methods less successful than the English, primarily because the English teach the natives to read, and make colonial administration a career while the French look upon it only as a temporary ordeal. In studying the natives, with the insight Benga provided, Geoffrey Gorer came to the conclusion that white men cannot understand the mental processes of true savages, who have no time-sense. Before his journey was over, Geoffrey Gorer was prepared to accuse such writers on Africa as Paul Morand and William Seabrook of "naïve diabolism...
...Harold Nicolson presents Morrow as a "completely civilized man," the possessor of an extraordinarily modern type of mind. His apology is misplaced, since Dwight Morrow reveals Nicolson's remarkable grasp of U. S. history, politics, social life, but nowhere establishes convincingly its subject's claim to originality, insight, achievement or potentiality...
Under the heading, "Crime, Price of Progress" in TIME, July 22, you record the story of two Negroes with frosted feet. There is the usual lack of insight in this story and the usual appeal to sentiment for the poor abused criminal. Both courts and publicists seem to have entirely overlooked the true philosophy and the correct attitude towards this class of criminal. To begin with, causation: I have had under my care in the past year three of these Negro types. All had frosted toes. This condition depending not on exposure so much as on the syphilitic disease...
...scattered gratuitous $5 bounties this way & that. The contest will henceforth be expanded and enlarged, "the prize offer will be multiplied several times." Well might Country Home grow enthusiastic over their crossroads correspondents. Excerpts from the contributions displayed genuine simplicity, natural beauty, instinctive truth. As intuitive a piece of insight into the female character as ever came from Willa Gather was the report of Deborah Whitaker on her trip to New Hampshire's Governor's Ball, as published in the Milford Cabinet & Wilton Journal. A poultrywoman on the verge of the event of her life. Mrs. Whitaker entered...