Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...actual fact, no candidate is expected to have all these attributes. The various selections committees instead look for some definite quality of distinction, whether in intellect or character. As one recent Scholar put it, "You really don't have to be a varsity athlete and president of the Student Council; you can just be a terribly nice...
...title role, takes a rather original approach to his part. His Hamlet is not so much a melancholy Dane as strong hero caught in an overwhelming situation. This helps make fast-moving parts of the play more striking but tends to weaken the inward-turning soliloquies. Hamlet's towering intellect comes through, but the troubled depths behind it are not always apparent...
...Moore flesh, and all of a sudden the countless battles Archie had fought, from Toronto to Tasmania, seemed to catch up with him. The starch leaked out of him. Carelessly, he dropped his guard. A lopping left hook whistled out of nowhere, to separate him from his intellect. He climbed off the canvas at the count of nine; then a sharp right cross dropped him for good. It was only 2 min. 27 sec. of the fifth round...
Prof. John H. Finley, Jr. '25, a member of the Faculty Athletic Committee, presented the theory that "football represents the essence of modern times." Today's football strategy "symbolizes the superimposition of the intellect on the physique which is the basic antithesis of our age," he claimed...
...talk that was remarkably outspoken for the judgements it delivered on various schools of modern painting criticism, Shahn stated that the value of man resides in his conscious mastery of life, in intellect and humanity at its highest peak. He felt symbolism went too far in the direction of automaticism where the artist loses control to his subconscious and amorphous mind...