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...Moore flesh, and all of a sudden the countless battles Archie had fought, from Toronto to Tasmania, seemed to catch up with him. The starch leaked out of him. Carelessly, he dropped his guard. A lopping left hook whistled out of nowhere, to separate him from his intellect. He climbed off the canvas at the count of nine; then a sharp right cross dropped him for good. It was only 2 min. 27 sec. of the fifth round...
Prof. John H. Finley, Jr. '25, a member of the Faculty Athletic Committee, presented the theory that "football represents the essence of modern times." Today's football strategy "symbolizes the superimposition of the intellect on the physique which is the basic antithesis of our age," he claimed...
...talk that was remarkably outspoken for the judgements it delivered on various schools of modern painting criticism, Shahn stated that the value of man resides in his conscious mastery of life, in intellect and humanity at its highest peak. He felt symbolism went too far in the direction of automaticism where the artist loses control to his subconscious and amorphous mind...
...rapport with his own environment? Shahn," says Rodman, "consciously out of a painful apprenticeship to the centuries of Western painting had managed somehow to devise an expert means of simple communication--"Obin (the Haitian) could not tell me why or how he did anything. Shahn a man of commanding intellect, astonishing memory and unusual articulateness, perhaps could...
...composite constructed in a score of other books, his book is more vividly told and more sharply dramatized, has risen high on bestseller lists since its publication three months ago. Burns quotes with approval what Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, retired and 92, said of F.D.R.: "A second-class intellect. But a first-class temperament!" Nothing in this biography contradicts the judgment. F.D.R. played the presidency by ear, sometimes with real political virtuosity, as often as not with "a thin streak of cruelty.'' (Said Tammany Hall's Big Tim Sullivan in 1911 when F.D.R. was a brash young...