Word: intellection
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Happily, noise seldom conquers intellect so roundly elsewhere. Few communities have reached a point where book-burning is so popular, where men like Paul Hoffman are hissed into silence, and where UNESCO and the Comintern can be mentioned in the same breath without evoking general laughter. Nevertheless, the increasing popularity of extremism is no less discouraging for the localization of its success...
...Bennington system succeeds to the point where it instills its pupils with a healthy regard for intellect. This is manifested in the classrooms, where students vie to ask piercing questions. Although Burkhardt claims that "girls aren't afraid of being dumb," the competition in some classes assumes disproportionate dimensions and tends to make the duller students remain silent. The classes, which meet one to three times weekly, and entail many papers, run about 13 members and may include an occasional male one of the drama students...
...method was to break the language down into six main classes (abstract relations, space, matter, intellect, volition, affections). Then under each class he listed the pertinent one-word topics, following these with a rich array of synonyms, colloquialisms and comparisons. The topic courage, for instance, involved for him everything from audacity to spunk, Perseus to gamecock, to "beard the lion in his den." Roget also included appropriate quotations: e.g., "Every dog is a lion at home" . . . "The valiant never taste of death but once...
...eternal credit, that its April 14 cover article ennobled one of God's noblemen. The Bishop Sheen story, like the Marian Anderson story [TIME, Dec. 30, 1946], will long be remembered as a superlative piece of biographical writing. Seldom have the spirit, the dedication and the intellect of a man been so completely captured...
...supposedly uninhabited island, is "exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore." What gives this episode its magnificence is not its mechanical "plot value" but its power to set the reader's imagination flaring like a torch. Even while his startled intellect searches this way and that for an explanation of the footprint, his anxious heart is oppressed with forebodings as to what the footprint may mean for Crusoe...