Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fancy folklore notion that there was widespread anti-intellectualism never really held up. What we, millions of us, were anti, a decade or three ago, was not intellectualism, but "intellectuals." Modern America grew great through widely applied intellect; but too many "intellectuals" were just playing...
...being palmed off on us on the premise that we go to the movies to see smuttied-up, padded-out, mucked-down television serials in Technicolor and Techniscope." Of Anne Bancroft's performance in The Pumpkin Eater, she said: "She seems a cowlike creature with no aspirations or intellect above her pelvis...
...force, Baal paradoxically suggests Brecht's fear of it, as if the worship of life could only lead to sensual derangement. If ever a playwright had a split personality, it was Bertolt Brecht. In later plays, he seemed to revel in decadence and cynicism while mourning purity. His intellect was at war with his heart. His tongue sneered while his lips prayed. Embracing the tyrannical collectivity god of Communism, he remained his own prickly, mocking, individual self. He was his own most ambiguous creation, elusive by nature and by craft, for, as he says in this play, "Tales that...
...very much like a prehistoric monster, with a rather under-developed central nervous system and many large ganglia called "departments," which control the activity of its extremities. The largest of these is History, chaired by Donald H. Fleming, professor of History, a bald bouncy expert on the American intellect...
...little is known about Atatürk's emotional problems, and Kinross is too responsible to speculate. He simply presents the available facts and sets them in a good light. Kemal Atatürk emerges as a political genius immingled with a moral moron, a man with the intellect of a Western liberal and the disposition of an Oriental despot, a loving father to his country all day long, but after sunset a dedicated lecher and incorrigible lush...