Word: intellection
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...lecturer, a former Chairman of the Boston Federal Reserve Bank, will speak on "New Intellect in Retailing...
...Negro face does not tell us a thing about what sort of mind is behind it, any more than a white face does. I have Negro pupils who are problems; I have lily-white children who are problems. It just happens this semester that the only truly sensitive intellect studying under me belongs to a Negro...
...evening's discussion he dwelt perceptively on Diego Rivera, the habits of alligators, Dickens, the Oklahoma legislature, fine printing, Arabian oil, academic freedom, the winter treatment for banana trees in Dallas patios. And what he most abhorred, in his vain way, was weakness-especially weakness of the intellect. Aging, the sight of one eye totally gone, he began to suffer the blood-draining anguish of aplastic anemia. He feared that somehow his mind soon would be affected, found the thought too much to bear...
...actual fact, no candidate is expected to have all these attributes. The various selections committees instead look for some definite quality of distinction, whether in intellect or character. As one recent Scholar put it, "You really don't have to be a varsity athlete and president of the Student Council; you can just be a terribly nice...
...title role, takes a rather original approach to his part. His Hamlet is not so much a melancholy Dane as strong hero caught in an overwhelming situation. This helps make fast-moving parts of the play more striking but tends to weaken the inward-turning soliloquies. Hamlet's towering intellect comes through, but the troubled depths behind it are not always apparent...