Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...article entitled "The Colleges of America's Upper Class" in the Nov. 16 Saturday Review, Gene R. Hawes adds this statistic to the recent trend toward intellect-oriented admissions policies, and concludes that "money's close connection with power, education, and refinement has ceased...
Hawes says that the Big Three schools were the "gentlemen's quarters" from the end of the Civil War until the end of World War II. After that, a sudden influx of applications caused the three most prestigious colleges to make a choice between "professed commitment to develop intellect and a long rich association with the upper class." The three, "especially Harvard," decided to replace aristocracy with "meritocracy," writes Hawes...
...typically melodramatic lament for the waning of a French world that began with cubism and ended, more or less, with existentialism. Several hours later, Cocteau himself died of a heart attack at the age of 74. In one day France had lost both an esthetic arbiter of its intellect and a guardian-or at least a mascot -of its heart...
...Albert Finney's magnificent portrayal of the title role. Finney's Luther is fiery in ardor, tormented by doubt, and intoxicated by God. Playwright Osborne's major error lies in suggesting that Protestantism probably owes more to Luther's griping intestines than to his vaulting intellect...
Science Fact. The men at Litton are aware of the problems, but they are optimistic about the long-range effects of technological revolution, believing that great new industries will arise to create even more employment. Thornton sees technology as eventually "freeing man's intellect for decision making, and freeing his creative powers for the contemplation, theorizing and development of yet newer technologies that can put into use the great abundance of energy available to mankind." For a man like Thornton, who wants to "build and keep building," the exciting possibilities ahead far outweigh any possible hazards...