Word: intellection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More Than Intellect. Rommel regarded bravery, regularly demonstrated, as a necessary part of the equipment of a successful commander. A general, he wrote, should not fight his battle as a game of chess, but must take personal command in the field. His accounts of the fighting in France and North Africa are filled with such notes as: "To enable me to force the pace, I took the leading battalion under my personal command." This brought him constantly under enemy fire; he missed death by inches; his drivers and aides were killed; he suffered a fractured skull himself when strafing...
...performed before a small group for good reason. They are delicate weldings of poetry, music, and dance--all in a mystical world existing only in the minds of romantic men. The plays extol the hero Cuchalain and with him all brave deeds and fearless men. They reject the objective intellect--the only intelligence that exists for them is that of cunning or wise counsel in the art of war. The mind alone, the scholar, the academician, even the satirist is not mocked or belittled--he just does not exist. The play On Baile's Strand sees Cuchalain, the brave...
...comprehends it. With wistful comfort from a distant but remembered past, she plods through the present listlessly, leaving her hair-brush on the breakfast table and her girdle in the bureau. A less gifted actress would make Lola only repulsive, infuriating for her aimless sloppiness, her complete lack of intellect and sensitivity. Miss Booth, however, draws an infinitely pathetic portrait of a lonely and well-meaning, but painfully limited woman unable to cope with her life...
...easily bridged. Materialist Holmes, with his suppleness, curiosity and gusto, was perennially young; Socialist Laski, with his dogmas and his immense learning, was prematurely old. For the rest, a passion for ideas, a faith in reason (as used by men of intellect), a dim view of organized religion, mutually known books and friends marked the common court on which they played out a tennis match of the mind. In time, they batted everything and everybody over the net, from Aristotle to Hemingway, from dentists to doorknobs, from Communism to the common cold...
Root bought his first oil painting in 1907, when he spent his $250 savings on a picture he liked. "It was the first time," he says, "that I was conscious that art makes an appeal to the emotions instead of the intellect." Emotions have been Root's guide ever since. In the days when Paris' moderns were the rage, Root went after such promising U.S. painters as George Luks, John Marin, Edward Hopper, and Charles Burchfield, who was still designing wallpaper in 1929 when Root first saw his work...