Word: intellection
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...film opened the new Manhattan playhouse of a serious-eyed little group who call themselves the Art Cinema League. The tiny, tastefully decorated cinema house, resurrected from a onetime livery stable is dedicated to "the intellect and the esthetic emotions rather than the cheap sentimentalities and banal melodramatics." Said a critic: "If the first program does not live up to these fine pretensions, there is at least enough stray beauty to justify this lone exploiter of intelligent pictures...
...hazardous and admirable journey is a notebook of 90 chaotic pages in which Coleridge was accustomed to scrawl the names of books which he had read or intended to read, ideas which he considered shaping into verse, recipes for ginger-wine and other paraphernalia of a profound and poetic intellect...
...Vagabond subsists, in the eyes of the world at least, on the food of the intellect. But, all unknown though it may be to his many followers, he is often forced to wander far afield in pursuit of that rare morsel which can please so fastidious a taste as he secretly prides himself on. Boston, as the nearest, the most obvious, territory for the despairing epicure, is the usual scene of these veiled expeditions. Last night the Vagabond set out in search of those delicacies indigenous to the joy, the lightness of spring. Weeks of rain and lowering skies...
This problem like many treated in Social Ethic's courses is one on which every intelligent being has ideas of his own, but which can often be greatly clarified by the aid of an intellect trained in that particular branch of learning...
...might just as well have adopted an entirely different set of rules. And he has missed Pascal altogether. We suspect that he has substituted a psychology for its more ultimate. Indeed, he says it best himself: "The affairs of the world interest me only as they relate to the intellect--everything in relation to the intellect--everything in relation to the intellect. Bacan would call this intellect an idol. I agree, but have found none better . . . . This point of view is false, since it separates the mind from all other activities; out this obstruction and falsification are inevitable; every point...