Word: intellection
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Thus a feeling of isolated, individual dignity has been superimposed upon Conway's highly developed intellect. Many of the students who have come in contact with him comment upon his "genuine concern and wonderful humanity." Master Finley commends him for having achieved "a wonderful balance between the moral and intellectual aspects of University life." He has also balanced his acceptance of Francois Mauriac's skepticism with his own devout Catholicism...
...admirer: "She still knows more about music than all the great composers and performers." What precisely is it that she knows? The woman who gave up her own early attempts at composition as "useless music" has not tried to shape a special musical style, stands first of all for intellect and discipline. In an age given to sprawling, undisciplined "self-expression," this has been a much needed corrective. Critics of Teacher Boulanger nonetheless wonder what the work of many contemporary composers might have sounded like without the apron strings of her cool, brainy, French-intellectual influence. But, says Nadia Boulanger...
From more than 100 Sunday newspapers last week tumbled fat and gaudy magazine supplements devoted to a subject that to many dailies was once a bad word: TV. Newspaper publishers still fret over the economic challenge of TV, and critics chide it for challenging the intellect too little. Nevertheless, on the theory that 37 million TV-owning families can't be wrong, newspapers today are giving TV far more space than they gave to movies in Hollywood's heyday-just as the average family spends far more of its time with TV than it ever spent in movie...
...outguessed, hates even more to lose. He remained squatly in his corner of the bench-not because he was calm but because he was a catcher. As a catcher, he had learned to do his thinking in a crouch. It is a posture that seems to hone the intellect. For catchers, once they have mastered the mask, chest pads and other "tools of ignorance," seem to make the grade as big-league managers almost as consistently as big-time businessmen make the team on Republican Cabinets. The bright tradition runs way back to the late Connie Mack and Roger Bresnahan...
...twirling, eyeball-rolling villain. Instead of black garb with cape, how refreshing to see Iago in a series of brown costumes! Although he occasionally indulges in too studied a pose, he handles his lines with nuanced variety, often spitting them out rapidly in keeping with Iago's lightning-quick intellect. But more than that, we sense the Machiavellianism where it belongs--inside Iago's mind--even when he is just lurking silently on the sidelines. It would be easier to externalize his deviltry entirely, but it would be wrong. To the personages of the drama, Iago must seem honest; otherwise...