Word: intellection
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...school earlier to acquire the arts of sociability. They are graded and even seated not by what they know or can do or by temperament-but in accordance with their ability to cooperate. At what? At cooperating. "The children are supposed to learn democracy by underplaying the skills of intellect and overplaying the skills of gregariousness and amiability-skill democracy, in fact, based on ability to do something, tends to survive only in athletics." The six-year-old group helps form its own other-directed character with the harsh judgment "He thinks he's big!" Everyone is cut down...
...Dewey (see above), Irv Ives yielded to his strong sense of party loyalty and agreed to run. He has no brown derby, no winning ways, no fiery mannerisms. Although he once taught public speaking, he is only a middling-fair speaker-a quiet man who hides a sharp intellect under the linsey-woolsey coat of an upstate countryman. He has been described (inaccurately) as a Jeffersonian Republican and as a political tiglon, yet few voters know what, specifically, Ives represents-except in the broadest general terms...
...Swede appealed to many an intellectual who did not join the New Church; Emerson saw him as "a colossal soul [who] lies vast abroad on his times, uncomprehended by them, and requires a long focal distance to be seen." Henry James called him "the sanest and most far-reaching intellect." Last week the Church of the New Jerusalem met in Manhattan for its 131st General Convention. On hand were 250 delegates, including the Rev. Yonezo Doi, whose flock in Japan and Korea numbers 3,400 Swedenborgians. Meeting in their trim, light-filled church off Park Avenue on 35th Street...
...Director Robert Bresson is a man whose errors are more interesting than the hits of most other directors. In this French film, the outward and visible symbols he finds for the inward and spiritual states of the famous (1937) Georges Bernanos novel are vivid enough to excite the intellect, though they do not always agitate the heart...
...ruse, a front, a deception placed there by the administration to lead us away from the realization of the thunderous truth: that modern architecture, the creeping cancer of our industrial technology, has in fact captured a corner of the Harvard Yard, the nucleus of New World intellect, world shrine of ivied Victorian architecture. Don't let that little "old" lamp-post deceive you, don't let its tattered respectability hide from your eyes the hideous sore that rears scant yards away...