Word: intellection
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...that the time had come to take a calculated risk with a fresh leader, unbruised and unwearied by the Tories' past defeats in five straight elections. Ideally, he would be a man widely known and respected across the country, an able administrator, a good speaker, gifted with the intellect and energy to guide Canada's destiny as Prime Minister or serve as a rousing leader of the opposition in Parliament. The man best qualified and most frequently mentioned as a dark-horse candidate last week was Sidney Earle Smith, 59, president of the University of Toronto...
...Intellect as Passion. Shaw left no children and "expressed regret that his marriage had been fruitless." The fact was, says Biographer Ervine, that Charlotte Payne-Townshend had a morbid "horror of sexual relations." But no man ever had a better helpmate than Charlotte. When she died in 1943, Shaw became "hysterical" with sorrow, shedding tears one moment and trying to sing the next...
...endowed with an intellectual genius that can compensate for physical deprivation. But Shaw was-and it is this quality that his detractors find so inhuman. "Recognize," Shaw once told Ervine, "that intellect is a passion; that is, an activity of life, far more indispensable than physical ecstasy...
Conjurer's Secret. By never denying childhood's all-questioning view, Klee kept his magician's power to conjure up the fears and delights underlying the prickly defense of man's intellect. He viewed a line as a dot wandering through space, allowed his hand to follow his own inner promptings. But because what the unconscious tossed up was rigorously controlled by one of the keenest sensibilities in modern art, the result was a lifetime's staggering production of nearly 9,000 works which have an uncanny ability to communicate indirectly to man; their meanings...
...whole Judaic group of ideologies and religions" on the one hand and the "Buddhaic group" (Hinduism, the Mahayana and Hinayana forms of Buddhism) on the other. For the East, like ancient Greece, sees history as cyclical, recurrent, and hence irrelevant, while Christianity, Judaism and Islam see it governed by Intellect and Will, i.e., God. But in assigning history this divine importance, they "have reopened the door to self-centeredness by casting themselves, in rivalry with one another and ignoring the rest of Mankind, for the privileged role of being God's 'Chosen People...