Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little Dr. Adler always kept remembering how humbled and humiliated he had felt as a child. His family had been poor. He had been small, nervous, frequently ill, had resented his schoolmates' bullyragging. As with many another bantam, power became his goal, intellect his tool. He devised a theory: "The striving for superiority and the sense of inferiority go together in every human being. We strive because we feel inferior, and we overcome our feeling of inferiority by successful striving...
...life-blood of a master-spirit treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life", a life of which we may gratefully partake to augment our own substance. The signs are everywhere decipherable that the universities and critics of today have the sickness of an acquisitive society of the intellect; they need to be more respectfully, curiously inquisitive before the monuments to the past. English 15 is the course for those who might be called the sublimely inquisitive in our midst...
...into their own hands. The commonplace has become tyrannical. In former times "the masses asserted no right to intervene in [government] ; they realized that if they wished to intervene they would necessarily have to acquire those special qualities and cease being mere mass." A fierce believer in aristocracy of intellect and character, not of heredity, Ortega, y Gasset calls such organized mass-government as Fascism and Bolshevism "two false dawns . . . mere primitivism." Europe's answer, he thinks, is to build itself into one great state in which, he implies, the massman will...
Puckish little Baron Passfield of Passfield Corner is famed for his keen Socialist intellect. So is his wife who winces at being called Lady Passfield, insists she is Beatrice Webb. Lately these two leading Socialists, Laborites and economists set out on a junket to Moscow. If they thought they would receive a luxurious welcome such as was lavished last year on George Bernard Shaw (TIME, Aug. 10), they were right. The Soviet Government threw open its expensive "Guest House" for the Lord & Lady. With the discrimination of an epicure Lord Passfield ate and ate of caviar...
Mark Twain has written of the Missisippi life, its richness and its poverty, its tarnish and its glitter, its fighting and its tranquility as no man before or after has ever been able to. Mississippi was caught in the eddies of his humour and the slow current of his intellect. American literature has come to think of the Missippi Valley as the work of Mark Twain, as the Mississippi Valley is sure that Mark Twain is American Literature...