Word: intellection
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...steroid compounds, Rock explained, are simply adjuncts to nature: the physiology of the safe period, marked by the production of progesterone, is identical with the effects of Enovid. Just as a woman's body has cycles to protect its offspring, a woman has an intellect to safeguard her marriage. "It may even be immoral," Rock said, "to refuse to use the intellect...
Frontier-on-Seine. If some of Charles de Gaulle's dreams of European leadership seem at times more suited to the age of Charlemagne, he has nevertheless surrounded himself with imaginative, superbly trained ministers whose eyes are fixed firmly on the future. Seasoned civil servants of intellect, shrewdness and long acquaintance, notably Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville and Louis Joxe, who handles Algeria, still hold the most exposed and sensitive jobs in his government...
...best rectangle in the country, but it was too sterile, too intellectual." In concentrating on the figure, Jones is not taking sides in what he regards as the wholly irrelevant debate between representation and abstraction. He is simply after a "personal statement" that lets him "operate with the intellect and the emotions as well...
...between sciences and humanities in the U.S. struck Thomas Gold, professor of Astrophysics at Cornell University and former professor of Astronomy at Harvard, as less dangerous than the opposition between those who embrace the ideals of education, culture, and intellect, and those who denigrate these ideals. Indeed, he said, "we should diversify the branches of human endeavor, and if someone in one branch can't communicate with somebody in another, that's tough...
...Nehru attended an all-day meeting of the Executive Committee of the parliamentary Congress Party and made a final plea for Menon, whose intellect, he said, was needed in the crisis...