Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hasten to assure my many followers that last week I was only fooling. What I was really thinking of when I predicted 20-13 was that it will take 20 years for me to make 13 false predictions. This week my famous intellect has been exercised with utmost effort and accuracy, so lesser sages will turn Green with envy...
...Heaven, rises above eyes that follow the shaft he has sped. 'And the cold marble leaped to life a god.' Contrast the Belvedere with the Venus de Milo, the very eidolon of the female form, the Queen of the Loves; the head too small for great intellect but big enough for the greatest love. . . . "Surgery has created its greatest endeavors for woman-the Caesarean section for her unbornable child. McDowell invoked the bold invasion of the abdominal cavity for the removal of the great new growths that made for women untimely graves. This presaged all of the marvelous...
...intellect and indifference, whose favorite reading in a hot New England summer is Hermes Trismegistus and Apollonius Rhodius. In her Talifer imagined he saw an ideal of Peace, imagined he preferred it to the earthier happiness Althea offered him. Abruptly, after breaking with Althea to marry Karen, he was disillusioned, abruptly returned to his first love...
...Democracy is waning, and will probably soon be replaced by an aristocracy of the intellect," said Kirsopp Lake, professor of History, in an interview with the CRIMSON yesterday afternoon. "The next trend in the United States, as contrasted to the present 'tyranny of brains' in Europe may well be that the unemployed proletariat will, through an exploitation of the leisure time which is being forced upon them, become the intellectual, and, therefore, the political leaders of the country...
Except for this one vague, and possibly unimportant trend toward the realm of the pure intellect, the President's views on the mechanics of an education are broad and humanistic: they admit the advantages of society's ameliorating influence; they hint at the beauties of conviviality; and most encouraging of all, they show a definite desire to perpetuate Harvard as a gentleman's retreat, rather than a gubber's paradise...