Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most of Mr. Conant's listeners are probably still of the opinion that a society without caste never was and never will be. Even his own Utopia, where education catapults the men with intellect or talent into positions of power, is possessed of a caste system--with caste resting upon intellect and talent. Even if the ruling class turns over to a certain extent, it is still a ruling class; and there is no real or universal freedom...
...prize is given annually by the Deans of the College and Law School to the Senior in Harvard College proposing to enter the Law School "who shall be considered to be best fitted, by intellect, character, and physique, to be influenced by Saltonstall's example and in turn to influence others...
...live in this neat and fanciful little fabrication. While the points of his disagreement are not yet fully known, this much is clear. He refused to crawl before the "bear that walks like a snake" simply because Party rules bade him do so. He refused to prostitute his intellect to Party discipline when every ounce of reason cried otherwise...
...character. But he is often suggestive, as when he says that Leonardo's restless versatility, which in later life kept him busy experimenting with grandiose and unpractical engineering projects when he should have been painting, was "a disease of the will similar to that which ruined the magnificent intellect of Coleridge." Like Coleridge da Vinci had a turbulent romantic imagination. In his unfinished Adoration of the Kings he painted what Clark calls "the most revolutionary and anticlassical picture of the 15th Century," extraordinary for an El Grecoesque swirl of uncountable figures. But Leonardo's passion for scientific precision and classical...
Thomas Mann: "Democracy is nothing but the political aspect of intellect...