Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...While the Beatles were still in the heavy rock kick, Simon & Garfunkel were producing great intellect. When the Beatles can produce something like A Poem on The Underground Wall, or Sounds of Silence, they will be truly great...
Harry Ritchie's production of The Cavern at Tufts succeeds on the whole, in playing with the audience's feelings and emotions in the Anouilhstyle. Daniel Greenblat (the Author) is well-suited for the role, though a bit too confident to be the comic intellect intended to act as foil for the Superintendent (Charles Siegel). The Superintendent is the advocate of the plot, always inquiring "Who killed the Cook...
...Strauss junks this notion as a complacent and self-serving modern myth. In its place, structuralism substitutes the heretical theory that the human intellect has been fully operative, and in the same fundamental pattern, since the creation of human society. Savage and civilized cultures together play the same game and play it equally well, despite an enormous variation in the results. In short, Lévi-Strauss has asked man to open a profound-and profoundly unsettling-new dialogue with himself...
...exists anywhere-in the behavior of the atom, the dance of heated particles, the orbit of the stars-then, say the structuralists, order must exist everywhere, even in the brain. Just as the law of gravity determined the fall of Newton's apple, so the laws of the intellect imperiously mold human thought...
...Strauss postulates two orders of reality, only one of which is susceptible to human control. At the controllable level, man applies his intellect to the universe about him and builds social systems to suit his needs. But at a deeper level, the implacable pattern that is ingrained in the human intellect, much like the program that decrees the functioning of a computer, directs the shape of everything built by social man. It may work, says Lévi-Strauss, like "the least common denominator of human thought...