Word: intellection
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...been going on for a long time and we were just becoming aware of it, and then builds up through long sustained periods to what is really a titanic climax. On the other hand, I am less and less impressed with the finale, because while it is great intellect, great poetry if you like, it is not great drama in the sense that the first movement is. It tends to stagnate instead of sweeping impetuously ahead. Brahms fails, in this movement, to master the theme and variations form as Beethoven does in the finale of the Eroica. His variations fall...
...nation unaware that its leader was even ill, King George II proclaimed: "John Metaxas, who for five years governed my country at my side with adroitness and self-sacrifice, who placed his stamp upon the nation by his luminous intellect, his productive energy, who gave new life to the national feeling and stood up courageously against the enemy's calumnies, has left our midst to take his place in the chorus of illustrious figures of Greek history...
...popular idea of the association of great intellect and weak physique was found to have no basis...
...oiled precision of the universe. Depth and breadth of emotion are the stuff from which any art and any religion are made. In the highest art, intellectual discipline and logic must support this emotion, must cast it into permanent mold, but in any event, the emotion must be there; intellect by itself is barren...
...this world of screwball art the most consistently screwy was Paul Klee's. An absolute individualist, whose work resembled nobody else's, Klee painted "animals of the soul, birds of the intellect, fish of the heart, plants of the dream...