Word: intellect
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Today it is difficult to guess the degree to which the grueling experience of the '50s has penetrated to the heart of this man who, with his subtle intellect and unobtrusive manner, remains, even to his closest students, almost Chinese in his mysteriousness. Superficially, few scars show. In one of his annual lectures in History 1711, "The United States and East Asia," he has recited the series of questions members of McCarran's committee once fired at him with a characteristically Fairbankian sense of deadpan humor. But, as few who know him at all can fail to mention, Fairbank often...
Critics claim Wald is too image conscious, exploiting research and issues for his personal exposure. But his contributions to science and society have come about as a result of the public's perception of him--regardless of its accuracy. As Mendelson says, Wald, with his creative intellect and moral convictions, has "pierced the mystique of science" and "set a new standard for scholars...
Freund's citation says he is "A brilliant scholar whose powerful intellect illumines the history of American constitutionalism; a kindly and responsive colleague for whom no task is too great, no problem too small...
Laughter is a spontaneous, and by definition, involuntary spasm of mind and body, a confluence of intellect and instinct in a moment of revelation. This is why written humor, deprived of an active context, so often fails. This is why the expression "Ha-ha" appears so pathetic on the page. This is why laying down "laugh-tracks" on sit-coms is like forcing an elephant to do the Hokey-Pokey while spanning the rails in Park St. Under (a game young hooligans call "Shredding the Elephant"). The attempt to institutionalize anarchy deprives anarchy of its essence, and like all large...
However, the geographer's discipline and intellect turn out to mask a fanatic's zeal. He imposes an implacable martial law and calmly uses torture to recruit troops from the countryside. Even his eccentric respect for the humanity of the natives becomes a form of arrogance. He enjoys publicly parading his black consort in order to mortify the provincial gentilities of the merchants' wives. His ascendancy, far from a triumph of the humane or heroic, is a kind of parable of the tendency of a fearful populace to conspire in the rise of a dictator...