Word: insights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that time he had learned to stay sober while gulping vast quantities of vodka, stay suave while sipping small quantities of tea, tell jokes in Russian and 15 Chinese dialects, outplay Chinese generals at poker and politics, pen dispatches which his State Department superiors found masterpieces of industry and insight...
...expense of the underpaid and sacrificing toil of thousands. I'm not sure that North Carolina can afford your magnificence. It's a question of whether the common welfare is to be sacrificed for the opulence of the few. . . . Mr. Duke was lacking in social insight. There can be no doubt that the power he developed is now the rightful property of the people of North and South Carolina and the surrounding States...
...Constitution followed the flag. Mr. Dooley was asked what he thought about the problem. After considering a moment the humorist replied that he didn't know about that, but he was sure that the Supreme Court followed the election returns. Mr. Dooley apparently not only had a keen insight into his times but the ability to grasp and aptly phrase that which would have meaning for successive generations. Yesterday's "gold decisions" bear ample witness...
...scientific thought. For the non-scientific student this course would go much farther toward his understanding of the scientific attitude than the former type. Granted, a comprehension of this view is an exceedingly difficult task, one which has been accomplished by few, but to achieve at least come insight into man's mind as it has progressed through the centuries in its effort to understand the complexities of the life with which he was faced, is possible through this method...
...brothers', Theodore and Llewellyn, comforts himself with the statement that his writing is "simply so much propaganda ... for my philosophy of life." What that philosophy is he has never, in his 62 years, been able to make clear. But occasionally his cumbersome farrago is punctuated with flashes of insight: "We are all in secret fighting for our sanity...