Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Animals have a memory but no intellect. Man has both, but the memory is an organic faculty, not a spiritual one. The inconsistencies in the Bridey Murphy revelations are understandable. Even if Ruth Simmons (Virginia Tighe) had lived before as Bridey, the only things she could remember are those which happened to her as the present Ruth Simmons...
...Pritchett's expose of James Joyce [Feb. 13] has been long overdue. Joyce was an anti-intellectual. His crime was to unseat reason from its throne. The role of the intellect is to reduce the chaos of the subconscious, and of the stream of consciousness, to order. To surrender that function and retreat to chaos is treason against man himself and the God who endowed him with intellect and will...
...brilliant social science lecture and a routine political speech: while rarely attaining the insights of the former, the author constantly displays a greater understanding and soundness of thought than is usually found in the latter. Four years after his appearance on the national political scene, Mr. Stevenson's intellect still marks him as an extraordinary politician...
...Denker and Ralph Berkey) is an effective thriller with a head in its tail. For most of the evening a flashback melodrama about a U.S. Army officer who went over to the Communists in a Korean prison camp, it winds up in what Balzac called "the trenches of the intellect," with a barrage of moral and mental queries...
...colonel. Allyn McLerie's performance as the colonel's (female) secretary is generally competent, but somehow their relationship does not seem convincing because both of them are too restrained. Her part is interesting, however, as she represents that feminine phenomenon, the not-so-sharp girl with pretensions to intellect...