Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Competition in our society is not new, but the female as a competitor is, and the emancipation of women has put certain phases of equality (not based on biological aspects) on a competitive basis with the male. His ego and intellect are threatened...
...Laughter in the Dark only superficially resembles Lolita; it is closer to the Heinrich Mann novel that became The Blue Angel, the famed Marlene Dietrich film of the same general setting and period. At its loftiest, Nabokov's theme is the degradation, by lust, of dignity and intellect-Shakespeare's "expense of spirit in a waste of shame...
...local vice czar, who fears the prostitute's casual price policy will ruin his market, the hero initiates a program of cultural aid to the heroine's underdeveloped area: the mind. Obligingly, the heroine at first abandons the pleasures of the body, discovers the pleasures of the intellect. But in the denouement she also discovers that when nature is denied, spirit suffers too. The film ends with a blare of strumpets as the heroine leads a rousingly hilarious red-light revolution and the luckless hero sails home sadder but wiser...
...essential if the Freshmen is not to become bogged down in an intellectual dead end--but it is ironic that he often is forced to change those attitudes which originally led him to Harvard: his views on the meaning of education, his own intellectual pretensions, and the relation of intellect to his own social outlook...
...Denver's Chancellor Chester M. Alter, 54, a Harvard-trained chemist, recently warned his Methodist-related school (5,700 students) that its job is "guarding and nurturing the life of the intellect," not wasting money on "extravaganza" football. His first use for Ford's money: more land, more teachers, more...