Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What manner of being is an egghead? Do you mean a sort of Martini-sipping Guru of beer-guzzling disciples? Or just anyone in whom intellect surpasseth understanding? . . . Perhaps . . . your readers can give us a clarifying definition of this intriguing word coinage ... So many of TIME'S readers in your Letters column acknowledge being eggheads, we should certainly be able to pin this thing down...
...experience at the Salzburg Seminar was not of a pseudo-United Nations composed of wrangling member nations, as Mr. Amfitheatrof's misnomer, "General Assembly" (instead of general summer session), might suggest; nor was it by any means of an "intellectual Point Four," with the inequality of intellect and the condescension that this term implies. Obviously, there was discussion and disagreement, as is to be desired in a closely-confined intellectual community. But this vibrant atmosphere. Far from leading to the formation of hostile camps rather served as the basis for the uniquely enriching undertaking which the Seminars...
...people of our country apparently possess a wisdom not shared by the eggheads whom I've long suspected of being eggheads...Webster's defines an intellectual as one "...endowed with intellect; having unusual mental capacity." One would think that such a person would also be possessed of wisdom. Yet today's intellectual seems somewhat lacking in this respect...
This prize, which has a stipend of about $300, is awarded to "that senior in Harvard College, proposing to enter the Harvard Law School, who shall be considered to be best fitted by intellect, character, and physique, to be influenced by Saltonstall's example and in return to influence others...
Because chess is the struggle of one intellect with another, victory brings a sense of achievement unequaled in any other sport. Conversely, defeat lays bare a man's most homicidal instincts. Legend has it that after a chess game a prince of Bavaria was brained by a son of the King of France. Reshevsky appears impervious to these emotional tides. He is both admired and detested for his glacial self-control. "He acts as though he can save any game, no matter how hopeless the position," complained one master bitterly...