Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More united in its opinion than any other section of the country, the Mid-West first, last, and always looks upon the Cambridge student as a wealthy, superficial aesthete, effeminate to the point of perversion in the lower circles of intellect...
...could scarcely force the plea between his chattering teeth. He was glazed with sweat. ". . . His body assumed without shame the very shape of fear. In his cringing motions, however, there were indications of an extreme fineness of intellect, unfoldings of a lacework of perceptions, of associations, of interpretations, which made the Nazi-Fascists seem like hogs rooting among the simple unimproved beech-mast of the world. No matter how he stooped and wavered, out of his head proceeded mental patterns intricate and brilliant as the etchings of frost on a winter pane. Surely the others, the Nazi-Fascists, were...
...below him. While the 1938 hurricane was shredding the elms and overturning New Haven's trolley cars, Professor Huntington worked away on a manuscript; he did not realize what was going on until it was all over. The experience buttressed one of his favorite theories: that the human intellect works best in a changeable, stimulating climate. The professor, 71, an authority on practically everything concerning the human species, died last week...
...average intellect of the movie going public is really that of a twelve-year-old, the latest Disney picture is meat for all. Outside of the antics of Bongo the Bear, "Fun and Fancy Free" is an unfortunate collection of talking goldfish, precocious beanstalks, and puerile platitudes; a collection that might keep a nursery school kid on the edge of his tricycle; but will certainly tip over no Oscar...
...that leads from the love of strangeness to that of eccentricity and thence to that of perversity. Now Phantasies was romantic enough in all conscience; but there was a difference. . . . What it actually did to me was to convert, even to baptise . . . my imagination. It did nothing to my intellect nor (at that time) to my conscience. Their turn came far later and with the help of many other books...