Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fiction ever penned; so Mark, to whom nothing American was alien, was bound to catch the fever. "An inventor is a poet-a true poet!" he cried, when his brother, Orion Clemens, invented a "modest little drilling machine." "To invent. . . shows the presence of the patrician blood of intellect-that 'round & top of sovereignty' which separates its possessor from the common multitude & marks him as one not beholden to the caprices of politics but endowed with greatness in his own right...
...steady, colorless man with too much honor and intellect to be a demagogue, too little fire to be an orator, too little hair and too few mannerisms to be spectacular, King fits his country's mood and pattern...
Saint Augustine, "the Saint of the Intellect," is enthroned among the saints as "the first great teacher of rational thought." His Doctrina Christiana, "the earliest pedagogical textbook of the Western world," supplied "the foundation on which the first European universities were built." From his teachings arise the famed Protestant tenets of "the pre-eminence of faith over good works, of grace over reason...
...Teach the Heart." During con versation-less meals in the peaceful refec tory they listen to reading selected "to teach the heart [and] the intellect." At day's end (8:30 p.m.), with the words, "the Divine help remain with us always, Amen," they begin the Great Silence which (except for words of worship) lasts until after breakfast the next morning...
...with none of the usual brawling. This turnabout is partly due to belated recognition by civilians of the fact that wartime price control is necessary. But it is chiefly a tribute to Chester Bowles, who is often described in Washington, a town of masterminds, as a man of ordinary intellect who knows how to talk to the public and to Congressmen, i.e., other men of ordinary intellect...