Word: intellection
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...Needed Intellect. Though India-like the U.S. after Pearl Harbor-could not yet afford scapegoats and recrimination, Defense Minister Krishna Menon was almost universally blamed for the inadequacy of Indian arms, the lack of equipment and even winter clothing. His fall from grace not only finished his own career but brought a turning point in Nehru's. The Prime Minister had tried to pacify critics by taking over the Defense Ministry and downgrading Menon to Minister of Defense Production, but Nehru's own supporters demanded Menon's complete dismissal...
...maintains, on one hand, that there are masters whose classic discipline is essential to composition, and on the other, that in the end "all these things have nothing to do with logic," that is, that composition must not be tied to intellect...
Much of what the seaboards have gained, the vast land area in between has lost−in population and power, in industry, and even in intellect. Michigan, long the symbol of American industrial go-getiveness, last year got only 2.7% of the defense prime contracts (against 9.5% in 1951-53)-Illinois got 2%. The seaboard centers have been a magnet in a selective sense−the populations flocking to California are not merely the sun-seeking oldsters, and certainly not the Okies of the 1930s, but often the youngest and brightest, most proficient and promising, most ambitious and adventurous...
Moore, Donald Babcock Professor of Philosophy at the University of New Hampshire, described existentialism as a combination of elements from the empirical and idealist traditions. Existentialism views man both as an object in the world committed to his relationship with other objects and as an intellect estranged and withdrawn from the world...
...sense that I am withdrawn," Moore continued, "I also want to go back to the thing I am, the thing I identify myself with embrace, and care for--something concrete, active, and committed as opposed to an impersonal intellect...