Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When asked about the educational possibilities of television, Carswell answered that "the job of television is not defined as upgrading the intellect of the American people...
...might happen again. Yet the quotation had meant something to the cultists as well. What "past" did they have in mind? Had Jones just picked up the quotation somewhere, and used it superficially? Or had he read Santayana in depth? And if he had, what perverse twistings of the intellect had brought him to his own conclusions...
...left, his hair glowing like a halo. His head was so large, his body seemed to hang from it like a spiral nebula." The great man agreed to pose for a sculpture, a project Berks has worked on ever since. "I was overwhelmed by the sweetness, yet penetrating intellect of the man. He treated everyone the same, whether child or king," recalls Berks, who has also sculpted busts of John F. Kennedy, Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson. The National Academy of Sciences is raising $1 million to pay Berks and his workers for the monument, which will be cast...
...Chomsky is a genuine man of conscience. It is a pity that, increasingly--as in his defense of the Cambodian government--his has become more and more divorced from intellect. Adam Kadmon
From British-born Robert Massy, a dropout physicist now at California's non conformist University of the Trees, the skeptic is flattered to learn that he has a yellow aura - "a sign of intellect." A friend is told that she has a pinkish glow, which means that she loves people. Archetypal Dowser MacLean, who still works as a chemical engineer in Portland, claims he can divine the arrival of oil tankers even when they are still far beyond the horizon. He adds: "Doesn't make any difference how far the object is if you have the power." California...