Word: intellection
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...Introduction, explains why upper-middle income Harvard students in recent years have come to reject contemporary American capitalism. Harvard's historic role as the training ground for the corporate and governmental elite is receding into the background. The entering freshman comes to Harvard eager to continue expanding his intellect, widen his interests and gain more control over his own life. But he is quickly stymied, for the majority of students here are being trained to assume boring administrative jobs in rigid, bureaucratic organizations. Gone are the days when every Harvard graduate could look forward to running his own corporation...
...think anyone can agree intellectually with a man who wants to give up dope peddling and get out of the ghetto And the plan he comes up with is quite clever I think You know, a lot of people think the black community is without intellect...
...warfare. Still, it is fascinating to speculate about the geopolitical implications. If pure hearts no longer prevail, what then is the future of the Soviet communal ideal? Perhaps the senses should now be allowed to soar in Russia, personal competitiveness be exalted, and the model of the disciplined intellect be scrapped in favor of the search for self-comfort in cars, cuisine and water beds. And if a brainy kid from Brooklyn becomes the all-American hero, should not the U.S. close its bars, shutter its stadiums, and encourage its citizens to march off to libraries to explore the storehouses...
...harmony with his unpolluted universe and his unpolluted self. He had his myths, his rituals, his visions: his "sacramental awareness" of nature and of his place in it. Then he became a devotee of Reason. He lost his "energies of transcendence," and turned into that modern monstrosity, "intellect divorced of its visionary powers." According to the Roszak bill of particulars, Christianity bears a heavy share of the blame. It excluded other myths in the name of one myth. It tended to abstract God into the Word: the pulpit crowded out the altar. Protestantism especially stripped man of "the inarticulate wisdom...
...Chess," said Goethe, "is the touchstone of the intellect." To many better-than-average players, a well-played game embodies something more: it is a work of art, owing as much of its beauty to imagination and creativity as to the exercise of intelligence. However it is regarded, and however long or short a time the current worldwide flurry of interest in chess persists, the game will go on. It has endured for 1,400 years, and will outlive all the theorists. ∎Gilbert Cant