Word: intellect
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...mind long enough to determine the value of all of the opinions that the hero has dished out. If, upon later doing so, one finds that the film’s most pleasing moments were tempered more by a healthy sense of the bizarre than by intellect, odds are that the discovery won’t seem terribly unsatisfying...
Lydon developed a devoted following for the show in Boston, and its supporters praise his insightfulness and intellect...
...redeeming performance, at least in the first act, comes from Liam Craig as Mercury. Bearing a distinct similarity to many a Kevin Spacey turn, Craig presents the winged god as possessing a piercing intellect and dangerously sardonic tongue. Moreover, he revels in a malaise that contrasts brilliantly with his position as swift-footed messenger of the gods. By the second act, however, all the character elements which Craig carefully built up in the first act collapse. What is left is a dimensionless thug who spends 90 percent of his time on stage reveling in his ability to beat...
...This creates difficulties in the dating department, where tall men like to date unnecessarily short women and short men seem to be all the rage this decade. After subtracting for irreconcilable personality differences and bad hairdos, I'm left with two Harvard men who meet the necessary height and intellect requirements; one is currently seeing another woman, and the other is taking a semester abroad...
...curious to see how Summers intends to apply his experience and intellect to the problems that Harvard students face. The University president has the opportunity, unfortunately little exercised during the Rudenstine years, to revamp the College and increase the quality of a Harvard education. Like Eliot, Lowell, Conant and Bok before him, Summers should review the undergraduate curriculum and be unafraid to remove its archaic elements--most notably an outdated Core Program that forces students to take large, watered-down lectures at the expense of departmental classes. We hope Summers will move quickly to address the poor advising system that...