Word: insights
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Perhaps, however, such conclusions would be unfair and unrepresentative. Just as much so as the statement, "Yale, according to its students of more than average insight, is a trade school for success." The Yale students concerned may have had insight a-plenty, but that quality is not to be discerned in their interviewers. Garrison McC. Ellis Chairman, Yale Dally News...
...play] was a crude piece of work, written in the naturalistic manner but without any real feeling or insight . . . The writing was heavy, dull and clumsy; at every point at which there was a need for action, the action slowed down, clogged by words...
Whether or not this piece of evidence ought to be advanced in opposition to Mr. West's thesis, I would hesitate to say. It may be simply that the student had a deeper insight into the mysteries of our economic system than many experts on the subject...
...directed by Joseph L. (A Letter to Three Wives) Mankiewicz, All About Eve is probably Hollywood's closest original approach to the bite, sheen and wisdom of high comedy. It crackles with smart, smarting dialogue. Sometimes at too earnest length, but mostly with wit and always with insight, it jabs at the quirks and follies of show business and its "concentrated gatherings of neurotics, egomaniacs, emotional misfits and precocious children." It matches some penetrating characterizations with top-drawer acting. With all these merits, plus a full-blooded story, the picture is absorbing enough to ride over an occasional...
...University summarized the "Eisenhower problem" as follows: "The trustees should have known better than to pick Eisenhower. They knew that he had no educational background, but they thought they were getting a good fund-raiser. Today the trustees are getting what they deserve for their lack of insight...