Word: intellection
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...words," Harold Taylor, former president of Sarah Lawrence, pointed out more than a decade ago in a lecture to the National Committee on Art Education. Few educators realize that integration of the creative arts in the curriculum is essential to the development of an individual's sensibility-to his intellect...
John Leonard is one of the two or three best literary critics in America, a fact that has been plain to New York Times readers since May 1969, when he became one of its book reviewers. To virtually any book, Leonard can apply intellect and language without sacrificing either. Last month, at 31, he was named the new editor of the New York Times Book Review, the paper's Sunday supplement that is the most widely distributed (1,400,000 copies) literary journal in the country...
...adventurers, in the underground for the hell of it. A few are 'crazies.' And there are some idealists of the Marxist 'useful idiot' type." More broadly, the guerrillas can range from outright criminals to blue-collar workers, from romantic, fanatic children of the elite to men of considerable intellect and courage...
...hope for political freedom in theoretical work is a desperate act. It's the act of a man committed to scientific, conscious, progress- and a man alienated from "reality" by this commitment to intellect, as well as by objective conditions. If his images and sounds have any sentimental content, it comes from their divorce from the real- their inability to embody the real directly...
...urban university in the country. The original City College of New York-then known as the Free Academy-was founded in 1847 to let "the children of the rich and the poor take their seats together and know of no distinction save that of industry, good conduct and intellect." "City" fulfilled its charter by schooling waves of immigrant youths, especially Jews, who were barred by many private colleges of the time. From the 1920s on, the "proletarian Harvard" produced more students who went on to doctorates than any other U.S. college, to say nothing of alumni as diverse as Zero...