Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...life, intellect has betrayed Mathieu. "Enough! I'm through! I'm sick of being the wise guy, the guy who always sees straight! . . . If only I could have pressed my finger on the trigger, somewhere some German would have fallen...
Part of this fault lies with the faculty and administration, both of whom have made peace with the crushing mediocrity of Businessmen intellect and attitudes. Stolidly cushioned in the status quo, the College must fight for its life to raise funds and academic standards at the same time, to prepare a man for life and General Electric, to promulgate ideas and Alumni Bulletins. Working at cross-proposes with itself, the College has been losing the battle of the books since the war ended. Both faculty and administration, shoulder-to-shoulder, arm-in-arm, have been "walking reluctantly backward into...
...current issue of the Jewish monthly, Commentary, Jewish Scholar Will Herberg describes the growing impact of Rosenzweig's work on current Jewish thought. Says Herberg: like the Christian philosopher, Kierkegaard, he felt that religious teachings "cannot be appropriated merely by the intellect; they must be made part of one's existence to be truly understood...
...passing combination of Ford Nadherny, ex-Yale back, and Cliff Crosby, former Crimson basketball star, accounted for two Intellect touchdowns. The first score of the game came in the first period when Nadherny threw a flat pass to Don Trimble, one-time Crimson track and field star. Nadherny-Crosby scored in the third quarter and again midway through the fourth quarter...
...Americans I met socially I found to be childlike, equipped with rather more than the usual number of national and personal prejudices, inclined to assess all things-motor-cars and nations-with an uneasy blend of emotion and economics. I found that they tended to avoid standards based on intellect. They did not seem to be very good at thinking, largely, I suppose, through lack of practice...