Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rapport with his own environment? Shahn," says Rodman, "consciously out of a painful apprenticeship to the centuries of Western painting had managed somehow to devise an expert means of simple communication--"Obin (the Haitian) could not tell me why or how he did anything. Shahn a man of commanding intellect, astonishing memory and unusual articulateness, perhaps could...
...composite constructed in a score of other books, his book is more vividly told and more sharply dramatized, has risen high on bestseller lists since its publication three months ago. Burns quotes with approval what Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, retired and 92, said of F.D.R.: "A second-class intellect. But a first-class temperament!" Nothing in this biography contradicts the judgment. F.D.R. played the presidency by ear, sometimes with real political virtuosity, as often as not with "a thin streak of cruelty.'' (Said Tammany Hall's Big Tim Sullivan in 1911 when F.D.R. was a brash young...
...that the time had come to take a calculated risk with a fresh leader, unbruised and unwearied by the Tories' past defeats in five straight elections. Ideally, he would be a man widely known and respected across the country, an able administrator, a good speaker, gifted with the intellect and energy to guide Canada's destiny as Prime Minister or serve as a rousing leader of the opposition in Parliament. The man best qualified and most frequently mentioned as a dark-horse candidate last week was Sidney Earle Smith, 59, president of the University of Toronto...
...Intellect as Passion. Shaw left no children and "expressed regret that his marriage had been fruitless." The fact was, says Biographer Ervine, that Charlotte Payne-Townshend had a morbid "horror of sexual relations." But no man ever had a better helpmate than Charlotte. When she died in 1943, Shaw became "hysterical" with sorrow, shedding tears one moment and trying to sing the next...
...endowed with an intellectual genius that can compensate for physical deprivation. But Shaw was-and it is this quality that his detractors find so inhuman. "Recognize," Shaw once told Ervine, "that intellect is a passion; that is, an activity of life, far more indispensable than physical ecstasy...