Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that he stayed away from her because he feared she would talk too much in bed. Her caustic treatment of Camus in her memoirs has been ascribed to spite, just as Sartre was patently jealous of the younger man who could attract women even without the exploitation of his intellect and reputation. In fact, Beauvoir wasn't as caustic as all that in her memoirs; one finds tenderness there as well. A legend that circulated at the time had Camus saying to a respectable woman of letters: 'We have, dear friend, spent a marvelous evening evoking high-minded...
Einstein's prophetic genius [Feb. 19], his comprehensive intellect, were more than a legacy - they were a promise for the future...
Lydon overreaches his intellect as well. The political and social critique of Bollocks was acceptable because it was sincere and angry; the critique in Public Image rings hollow, the dull abstractions of a pseudo intellectual. Consider "Religion," a tedious diatribe against the Church, which is trite and too long...
According to the Book of Genesis, the universe began in a single, flashing act of creation; the divine intellect willed all into being, ex nihilo. It is not surprising that scientists have generally stayed clear of the question of ultimate authorship, of the final "uncaused cause." In years past, in fact, they held to the Aristotelian idea of a universe that was "ungenerated and indestructible," with an infinite past and an infinite future. This was known as the Steady State theory...
...risky to theorize too much about Pilobolus. According to Matson, their choreography (always created collectively) proceeds more by intuition than by conceptualization. "Pilobolus goes straight to the heart; watching them, you can put your intellect away for a while," he says. And, both literally and figuratively, they're a refreshingly earthy bunch--"absolutely bawdy," says Matson, and "just as at home rolling around on the floor as standing...