Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Called by Professor William Y. Elliott "the most powerful philosopher of democracy today." Lord Lindsay led a movement to reverse the aristocratic tendencies of Balliol and to make the college "marked only by an aristocracy of intellect...
...heartily sick of this talk of Russia and the democracies not being able to understand each other. Stalin has surrounded himself with as intelligent a group of banditti as ever started out to sack and dominate the universe. . . . They are ... keen of intellect, devoid of truth, moral precepts, ethical standards, and humanitarian motives...
...infinite patience, tolerance of repeated failure, and contagious enthusiasm. Woodrow Wilson, described as Princeton's "matinee-idol" professor of politics, had only the enthusiasm. Though he is included as a "great teacher," the former student who describes him writes that pupils were inspired by Wilson's intellect but repelled by his intellectuality. Because he knew all the answers, he froze most of his listeners...
...future civilizations should be left to con the records of the modern world, they will probably declare Albert Einstein the 20th Century's greatest mind. Among 20th-century men, he blends to an extraordinary degree those highly distilled powers of intellect, intuition and imagination which are rarely combined in one mind, but which, when they do occur together, men call genius. It was all but inevitable that this genius should appear in the field of science, for 20th-Century civilization is first & foremost technological...
...atom bomb blasted the last popular skepticism about Einstein's genius it also blasted man's complacent pride in the power of unaided intellect. At the very moment that it was finally mastered, matter was most elusive and most menacing...