MARIBEL ANDONIAN Cupertino, Calif., Aug. 7, 2011 To the Editor: Drew Westen's essay offered sobering insight about the psychology of our nation and its president at this time of crisis.
The European Union's scathing audit of water aid investments and the Dutch government's brave evaluation of their own work (pdf) offer sobering insight into water-sector history and challenges moving forward.
Although the first week of the N.C.A.A. tournament will be remembered for the upsets, two comments provide sobering insights into the business of basketball.
These exceptional and deftly dovetailed shows provide sobering insights into our corporate-driven, celebrity-crazed, racially tense times by revisiting the relentless westward push that formed the United States.
His focus includes building emotional resiliency and self-awareness in the service of internal wellbeing and external success, in the context of today's turbulent, unpredictable and globalized environment He's the author of Modern Madness, cited by Daniel Goleman in the New York Times as "In the vanguard…offering sobering insights into the costs of modern success".
But with fourth graders nationally placing "below basic" in literacy levels and a Harvard study showing American students rank 32nd in math proficiency against the 65 nations that participated in the study, such statistics provided sobering and disappointing insight into the ability of public schools to provide an academically rigorous framework for my son.
As senior film critic for The Times from 1969 to 1993 (he began reviewing films for the paper in 1965) and then as a theater critic, Mr. Canby delivered trenchant insights, sober judgments and wry humor in reviews for the daily paper and in longer analysis pieces for Arts & Leisure on Sunday.
But, although the production is based on the implied tension between the Richard of history and the one of Shakespeare's imagination, the result is an unusually sober reading that has momentary insights but which loses something of the play's malign wit.
If it comes to pass that we give up the critical insight that provides us with sober second thought, society will easily fall victim to the first dominant fad and will no longer be able to hear anything other than "yes, there is a crisis".
After a decade of sober spirituality I went back to seeking insight though chemical relief.
