Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Very different in character are the works of Kandinsky and Klee. The former seeks a refuge from modern life through a play of abstract form and colour. Squares, triangles and circles carefully arranged make balanced colour compositions that gladden the eye but never attack the intellect or the emotions. Klee's refuge is in dreams. Like the surrealists, he portrays vague images conjured up from the subconscious and paints them with a tongue-in-the-cheek seriousness that has been completely misunderstood by his lugubrious colleagues in Paris. Nolde, like the sculptor Lehmbruck, is German in his intensity and paints...
Prof. Frankfurter despises anything simple. He was my college classmate. We are not intimate, for our natures were diametrically opposed. I was the simple rhetorical type he refers to above, whereas Frankfurter was an intimate logical machine, all his powers concentrated in a keen intellect that solved problems in higher mathematics that no other man in our class could solve. I should not be surprised if the N.R.A. and the whole government setup were planned by Frankfurter. The whole complicated system is right in his line...
Since the early Spring of 1934, he has campaigned up and down this state driving his own flivver, speaking two and three hours at a time then hurrying to some other locality for another speech, and he has charmed and thrilled the masses with his scintillating intellect, his wit, and humor, his Irish pathos, and his dauntless determination to serve his fellow countrymen. He has had arrayed against him nearly every newspaper, practically all the wealth, and influential politicians of the state. ... I dare say, his victory in this campaign will go clown in American history as the very greatest...
...soft grass below, landing as one object. The outspoken comments of the gathering rose to loud clamor at this feat of nature. Should a heavy body fall faster than a light one? The man in the balcony leaning perilously above, waited, then turned and descended the winding steps. The intellect of the man Galileo had proved a fact of science...
...Long on intellect is Bryn Mawr. Youngest and smallest of the sister colleges, it is the only one which grants the Ph.D. degree, is proud of a faculty capable of such advanced instruction. Twelve miles out on Philadelphia's socialite Main Line, Bryn Mawr's prim, cloister-like campus last week lay nearly deserted. This year's session of its famed Summer School for Women Workers in Industry ended last July, and the college was not to open until Oct. 1. Then officials expected about the usual number of students-300-odd undergraduates, 100-odd postgraduates...