Word: intellective
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...began beating the best players in Louisiana, and at 21 he had beaten the best in the world. A year later he abandoned chess, possibly because the girl he hoped to marry scorned the game. Morphy, as Novelist Keyes resurrects him, is a colorless weakling, whose intellect, despite the fact that everyone thinks him brilliant, is an unfavorable blend of compoop and nincompoop...
...Harvard, it would be the lack of men I look up to as human beings. In my opinion, education to a certain extent should bring you into contact with human beings who you feel have travelled further than you have in a spiritual sense, not just in terms of intellect, but in terms of being a human being... I frankly didn't run into one person, one human being here that I could say I truly admired and wanted to be like. Lots of stimulated me with ideas, but that's entirely different from being the kind of person...
Debate & Dramatics. The Rev. John Courtney Murray, S.J., is unquestionably the intellectual bellwether of this new Catholic and American frontier. He is peculiarly well fitted for this role-by intellect, by temperament and, just as important, by a life that has been largely insulated from the psychosociological problems of the Catholics...
Competition in our society is not new, but the female as a competitor is, and the emancipation of women has put certain phases of equality (not based on biological aspects) on a competitive basis with the male. His ego and intellect are threatened...
...Laughter in the Dark only superficially resembles Lolita; it is closer to the Heinrich Mann novel that became The Blue Angel, the famed Marlene Dietrich film of the same general setting and period. At its loftiest, Nabokov's theme is the degradation, by lust, of dignity and intellect-Shakespeare's "expense of spirit in a waste of shame...