Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Robert Lynn Fisehalis '49 of Germantown, Pa, won the Radicott Peabody Saltonstall Prize. This award is made annually to "that senior in Harvard College proposing to enter the Harvard Law School who shall be considered to be the best fitted, by intellect, character, and physique, to be influenced by Saltonstall's example and in turn to influence others...
Furtwängler hit harder: "Each great work of tonal music radiates deep, unshakable peace, like the majesty of God. This peace is lacking in atonal music [which] has grown restless. There is a lot of intellect and combination, there is plenty of intelligence, but ängler, listening to atonal music is like "walking through a dense forest; strange flowers are lining the path; you don't know whence you come and you don't know whither...
...maintain itself unless it contains these different levels . . . Complete equality means universal irresponsibility . . . oppressive for the conscientious and licentious for the rest." Mass education looks fine on paper, but in practice it only means "half-education," and encourages the half-baked notion "that superiority is always superiority of intellect." In Eliot's Victorian view of things, the true superiority is the superiority of any class passing on its culture for generation after generation...
When Armorel falls in love with Gian she devotes her life to improving him, passionately believing that under his simple-simian surface he has a heart of gold (which is true) and a fine intellect (which is not). She goes about her miscalculated mission with such iron ferocity that toward the end of the book some readers will want to liquidate her. They will not have to worry; Gian's nutty old father does that job admirably by slitting her throat, and Gian is convicted of the murder and hanged...
History Professor William Hesseltine files a minority report: "I was considerably happier over the generation of the '30s. These veterans have been harder workers-but except in technique, they're not as good. They don't have the quick, keen intellect or the inquiring disposition . . . The slogan of the '30s was 'Oh, yeah?' -a general, basic skepticism. This generation wants to believe something. It is looking for a quick and easy answer...