Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your "Manners & Morals" column concerning "the debutante industry" [TIME, Nov. 81, I was somewhat amazed, yet amused, to read of the "lissome" Joanne Connelley so nonchalantly dismissing the clever loquaciousness, genuine intellect, and congenial drinking habits of college "boys" in her sophisticated, world-weary attitude . . . It appears to our entire fraternity that this "sweet and young" 18-year-old apparently hasn't met true college...
Olivet College's President Aubrey L. Ashby's action in ridding himself of thorny Barton Akeley [TIME, Oct. 18], is to be commended . . . Watchdogs of the American intellect are no doubt waiting eagerly for his next step...
...years, wiseacres have been warning people to distrust their hearts and use their heads. Last week in Illinois, 50 topflight psychiatrists, psychologists, anthropologists and physiologists hedged considerably. Said they: if you don't listen to your emotions, too, your intellect may get you into trouble...
Those pioneers and leaders of the "Age of Enlightenment,"-Galileo, Descartes, Spinoza, Hobbes, Leibnitz, Locke-put too much emphasis on reason, said Dr. Beck. The intellect, he added stoutly, is not enough. "We know from the history of our own times that the intellect has been a disappointment. It has not given men the central direction for which they searched...
...first visit to Europe in 20 years had helped do the trick. Attending scientific conferences in Brussels and Birmingham, Oppenheimer had learned how despairing the life of the intellect had become in postwar Europe. Viewed from Princeton, the Institute might have its shortcomings; viewed from Europe, it had something of the special glow of a monastery in the Dark Ages...