Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...award, worth more than $300, goes each year to "that senior in Harvard Law College, preparing to enter Harvard Law School who is best fitted by intellect, character and physique to be influenced by Saltonstall's example and in turn to influence others...
...faith, although Sir Thomas More went to the Tower and the block in its 'defense. The primate is a better Christian than his lineage and many of us Catholics. We pray that his reward will be that of Newman and Chesterton. The door they opened was discovered through intellect, grace and prayer...
...tense representation of Luther's famous debate with Doctor Eck and in a fairly lengthy scene between the reformer and his Church superior, Martin Luther hits at the audience's intellect rather than emotion. Luther spells out his doctrine with force and drama, but his fervor is always under control, and his heated voice never tries to add potency to his words. Rather is Niall MacGinnis, as Luther, remarkable for his restraint. At the scene of Luther's trial before Emperor Charles V, when Luther is offered safety if he will recant his theses, MacGinnis is superb. His voice...
...under oath." This is a very clover comment--I never answered these questions, which I am willing to do at any time, only because they were never asked under oath or otherwise. I regard the very positing of these questions as not only ridiculous but more insulting to the intellect of the inquisitor than to myself...
...seductive face. She is happy because of "the intensity of my identification with living," and because her lover, who works for the Native Affairs Department, is "at grips with the huge central problem of our country in our time, something that had oppressed me not only in my intellect since I had grown old enough to have a concept of man's freedom, but in my blood...