Word: intellective
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...Third World groups) on this campus. Although we all realize that prejudice is strong beyond our "ivy walls," our efforts have been to change the attitudes on campus rather than those of society. We feel the need to disprove those individuals at Harvard who feel we are inferior in intellect. However, I think that this important campus-wide struggle tends to cloud the real obstacles to achieving equal status. To the racist the supposed intellectual inferiority sometimes attributed to blacks is justification for discrimination. It came as a shocking reintroduction to society that despite the number of achievements...
...presence. It's like a $100 bill that has been changed into a number of smaller bills. Politicians are going to have to court the AFL-CIO as an organization, not as an individual." Kirkland, 57, who is expected to succeed Meany, is esteemed for his intellect but not for his leadership. Partly for love of power, partly for love of labor, Meany put off the day of reckoning as long as he could. Now American labor is going to have to learn to live without...
...simply that she is more consciously literary than most of the other detective story writers . . ." Despite Wilson's judgment, Sayers and Lord Peter Wimsey, her witty sleuth, have become two of the most beloved figures in detective fiction. An engaging mix of upper-class sang-froid and Sherlockian intellect, Wimsey set new standards in highbrow snooping. As viewers of the PBS series can testify, only Wimsey would drive a Daimler to the scene of the crime, sport a monocle, and dine out with marquesses and murderers...
...talents of Richard Burbage, for whom Shakespeare fashioned his Richard III, Hamlet, Othello, Lear and other major parts. The role is more than three times as long as any other in the play, and the character has been thought to stand for God, Jesus, Fate, Justice, Art, Intellect, the Ideal Ruler, the Colonizer, the Grumpy Old Man, and a host of other things including Shakespeare himself...
James Bond movies are never appropriate places to bring your thinking cap. In fact, they require that you leave your intellect at home in a glass jar next to your T.V. set. But Roger Moore as James Bond in Moonraker finally clicks thanks to the film's luxurious backdrops, reasonably intelligent dialogue, cutesy references to other contemporary films, beautiful members of both sexes, and a hit man who'll bite on anything--in short, the old formula. And, to top it off, 007 really does DO IT in space...