Word: intellection
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...current issue of the Jewish monthly, Commentary, Jewish Scholar Will Herberg describes the growing impact of Rosenzweig's work on current Jewish thought. Says Herberg: like the Christian philosopher, Kierkegaard, he felt that religious teachings "cannot be appropriated merely by the intellect; they must be made part of one's existence to be truly understood...
...passing combination of Ford Nadherny, ex-Yale back, and Cliff Crosby, former Crimson basketball star, accounted for two Intellect touchdowns. The first score of the game came in the first period when Nadherny threw a flat pass to Don Trimble, one-time Crimson track and field star. Nadherny-Crosby scored in the third quarter and again midway through the fourth quarter...
...found enough to last him a lifetime. As a middle-class individualist of the highest power, who believed that poverty was a crime, who married a rich and intelligent wife and made a fortune which could be compared with that of any Undershaft, Shaw was an ambiguous socialist: his intellect was totally engaged; his whole life (as Trotsky suspected) was not. The device of the Superman, the super-intellect, the Life Force, was his escape from the determinism of Marx and it coincided with his native, 18th Century taste for despots...
...Americans I met socially I found to be childlike, equipped with rather more than the usual number of national and personal prejudices, inclined to assess all things-motor-cars and nations-with an uneasy blend of emotion and economics. I found that they tended to avoid standards based on intellect. They did not seem to be very good at thinking, largely, I suppose, through lack of practice...
Gropius qualified his choice by noting that naming the work of another artist is a difficult task. "An artist's message addresses the intuitive faculties of the onlooker rather than his intellect...