Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sonata is far more accessible on first hearing than either the Quartet or Variations, but many in the audience found it too tough a challenge. This is quite understandable, for Carter's recent music tends to be long on intellect and short on emotion, and there is little melody in the usual sense of the term...
...sufficient. The most obvious answer to their need may be derived from the words of the school board member quoted above. The gifted child must receive special attention. There must be special, advanced level classes in English and social studies, science, and mathematics. "Segregation" on the basis of intellect and ability--contrary to the charge of "undemocratic"--is in the best interests and tradition of a democracy in seeking out its best and training them. Bright students should be classed with bright students for stimulation and competition, instead of subjected to the frequent resentment of their slower classmates...
Other U.S. critics may have made as high demands on the theater, but none has ever matched the bright, Nathanic blend of impudence and intellect, rapture and irreverence. "Art," he held, "is a beautiful, swollen lie; criticism, a cold compress." While he derided "soapbox philosophers" and "commercial uplifters," Critic Nathan preached, cajoled and bullied to carve out a niche for Eugene O'Neill, the first U.S. dramatist to achieve worldwide renown. He worked as hard to popularize such famed European playwrights as Sean O'Casey, Ferenc Molnar, and Luigi Pirandello. Says the New York Times's Drama...
...overvalue or undervalue your opponent's intellect. Identify yourself with his cunning...
...very heartening to read [March 3] that Tennessee Williams is taking psychoanalytic treatment, but judging from the first excited oversimplifications, such as "Evil is merely a sickness-a psychic distortion," there are many tinny rationalizations prancing around on the roof of Mr. Williams' intellect which need to be separated from the psychic cats before the doctor's fat fee can be tabulated...