Word: intellection
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...farmer, he was sent at the age of 13 to the Bao Quoc pagoda in Hué to train for monkhood. Wild and fond of practical jokes at first, he was expelled, then given a second chance. He matured into a student with a photographic memory and a searching intellect. His teacher at Bao Quoc, Thich Tri Do, who now heads the tame Buddhist church of North Viet Nam, guided the impressionable novice into the winds of nation alism sweeping the then French colony...
...scientifically-minded student described the effects of pot in terms of what our eyes allow themselves to see. "Normally the eyes are distracted by hundreds of different lights and objects, but only single out the important ones for consideration by the intellect. Pot removes this selectivity, and our eyes send indiscriminate signals to the brain. The result is that we perceive things in a completely novel fashion...
...sobriquet "Mr. Attack." During the hearings, he proved that he is also a master of cool, impenetrable defense. Under heavy fire from committee members, Taylor, crisply handsome in dark grey suit and TV-blue shirt, held his ground with the grace and sang-froid of a man whose intellect and experience were more than a match for his august adversaries...
...scientists dismissed and derided the notion of an accurate intercontinental ballistic missile, and as late as 1956, Britain's Astronomer Royal called the prospect of space travel "utter bilge." Relying on the atom's almost limitless energy, the computer's almost limitless "intellect," the futurists predict an era of almost limitless change. With remarkable confidence, and in considerable detail, they present a view of man not only in total control of his environment but of his own brain and his own evolution...
...REDOUBTABLE fellow nowadays is the university president: he commands the vast expertise of his institution and knows how to organize intellect. As a fast-changing society increasingly values these qualities, the influence of the presidents is soaring. They have become a kind of fifth estate, half educators and half national policymakers...