Word: intellective
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...immigrant boy, became in turn an attorney, a federal bureaucrat, professor of the Harvard Law School, supplier of legal brains (Frankfurter's "happy hot dogs") to the New Deal and a guest professor at Oxford before his 1939 appointment to the Supreme Court. Along with an impressive intellect. Frankfurter has a sparrow's cockiness and a high-pitched, pedantic voice that often drives opponents to distraction. During the 19305 he was disliked and feared by conservatives as the legal strategist of F.D.R.'s onslaught on "economic royalists." As a member of the Supreme Court, on the contrary...
...claims, drifted so far from the Democratic program of Franklin Roosevelt (and Harry Truman) that it cost the party at least 3,000,000 votes. Before the convention in 1956, Truman goes on, "I tried as gently as I could, to tell this man-so gifted in speech and intellect, and yet apparently so uncertain of himself and remote from people-that he had to learn how to communicate with the man in the street. I felt that I had failed. I realized more than ever . . . that his indecisiveness, unless overcome, would make him ineffectual as a President...
...which 65,000 Europeans, 165,000 Asians and 35,500 Arabs hold more seats and power than do 6,000,000 Africans. The Africans demand universal suffrage, one-man-one-vote democracy, and full independence now. Macleod may not want to give it "now," but his sharp, trained intellect (he is an international-class bridge player) is sufficiently acute to recognize that there can be no solid African policy in Kenya without the support of the vast African majority...
Fortunately, a third-rate intellect is not necessarily an altogether negligible artist. When Mr. Meyer conceptualizes his subject matter, he is lost; by embodying it directly in his characters, he makes Children of Darkness strangely compelling. It is not through what he tells us, but through what he shows us, that we catch a glimpse of evil as an absolute, an ingrained disposition towards total selfishness, a combination of the willingness and the ability to blight lives, rather than a mere evaluation derived from totaling up a number of acts. At moments, evil lives on Mr. Mayer's stage...
Einstein's theory of relativity was one of the giant leaps of the human intellect. So impressive was it that for years most physicists have accepted it as the fundamental law of the universe, even though no one had devised methods or machines sensitive enough to verify it completely. Last week its most basic concept triumphantly passed the most rigorous test...