Undergraduate majors acquire the linguistic, philosophical, and historical acumen necessary for an in-depth research project during their senior year.
But Holland's cavalier treatment of his sources, ignorance of current research and lack of linguistic and historical acumen serve to undermine his provocative narrative.
Propelled by equal parts theoretical and historical acumen, Wetters explores the ways in which the question of the demonic has been employed to multiple theoretical, literary, and historico-political ends.
Transforming monumental figures through the power of creative vision, his impressive historical acumen is revealed through vibrant visual observations in his paintings.
After 15 years at the J. Paul Getty Museum, whose collection he helped improve as senior paintings curator, Schaefer is taking his eye and art-historical acumen back to the Sotheby's auction house, where he'd worked for 10 years before coming to the Getty in 1999.
With meticulous historical context and the acumen of a political scientist, Cook, a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, weaves together a narrative drawn from archives, interviews and his own firsthand reporting during a decade of visits to Egypt.
"This incredibly low base rate opens the field for many predictions that seem on their face to show great historical understanding and political acumen but are in fact of dubious value," Humphreys writes.
Mr. Frum's penchant for facile analogies and bellicose language underscores the dogmatic, hectoring tone of this book, a book that plays solely to readers who already share all of his certainties and that makes no effort to persuade others through historical knowledge, foreign policy acumen or simple logic.
Perhaps the best description of Trotsky — his intensity, acumen, and self-awareness of his historical import — comes from Edmund Wilson, who, in "To the Finland Station," his 1940 book on the intellectual path of Marxism, calls Trotsky the "aristocrat of revolution".
The film series, which began last fall, seeks to practice the art of discerning the theological contours of a film in its philosophical, historical, and technical components—and to deepen imaginative and pastoral acumen as viewers.
But because women largely shared their knowledge with each other, their expertise and acumen missed out on getting a prominent place in the historical record.
