Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Enoch Arnold Bennett, novelist: "Last week I published some paragraphs in the London Evening Standard. 'I am willing,' I wrote, 'to concede arguments to the effect that Einstein is endowed with a more prodigious intellect than any in the history of the race, that Shakespeare stands alone and that Abraham Lincoln stands alone, but I implacably affirm that a greater novel than The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoievsky has yet to be written.' I then rounded out the dozen greatest-in-my-opinion novels of all time. They included, in order, three more by Dostoievsky, three...
...industrialist, Henry Ford has made one of the greatest contributions ever made by any man. That is mass production. It amounts to first rate genius. But just as I am color blind, Henry Ford has blind spots in his intellect. In my opinion he is mentally unsound on certain questions of race and religion. He has a streak of bigotry on that side of his mind that is totally foreign to his industrial ability...
...finished. Then there are 109 more pages. The novel-that is to say-consists of interpolations: the fleeting memories and thoughts of Haeckla. To put it another way the cover blurb quotes Miss Chilton as saying that this is "a melodrama of the intellect." For an embryo novelist to attempt a plan so diffuse and snatchy is more than bold. To pull it off without creating boredom would have been magnificent- but the book bores. When all is said and done, Haeckla and Dennis were torturing their souls about nothing-and only a great novelist can fling the mantle...
...probably drove romanticism as far as it would go was Leo Tolstoy. For him little seems to have existed except the emotions Education, aristocracy of social position or of intellect had little value in his eyes. Him self a well educated man, he refused to consider Shakespeare among the great men of letters because his plays failed to make an immediate appeal to a Russian peasant audience...
...lately harassed wanderer through the academic wasteland of examinations who has a mind for relaxation of intellect and entertainment of the eye and ear, Marilyn Miller in "Sunny" presents great attractions while "Castles in the Air" runs a close second. For those with a desire for a compound of thrills and laughs "The Ghost Train" was especially written...