Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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West will bring that formidable intellect back to Harvard in 1995 when he leaves Princeton and joins the faculties of the Afro-American Studies Department and the Divinity School...
...College. They see them as charity cases. I imagine that if Mr. Lat, in his dogmatic adherence to the power of test scores, were to see the amazing first-year from the South Bronx strolling through the Yard, he would not consider the depth of intellect and character necessary for that young man to reach Harvard's esteemed confines...
Even early on, friends sensed in him an ability to move people that owed less to intellect than to the tug of sincerity. His sermons in those days were highly colorful and factually creative, to a point that would haunt him in later years. Heaven, he used to explain, measured 1,600 sq. mi.: "We are going to sit around the fireplace and have parties, and the angels will wait on us, and we'll drive down the golden streets in a yellow Cadillac convertible." Decades later, the vision has matured. "I think heaven is going to be a place...
...program had its origin in the richly fertile intellect of Prof. Henry Louis Gates and in his talent for launching serious intellectual activity...
...fitting, then, that America's new poet laureate is Rita Dove, a black woman who calls herself a spiritual heir of Wheatley's, and whose verses appeal not only to the senses but also to the imagination and the intellect. Moreover, Dove does her work on Jefferson's own turf. She lives with her husband, German novelist Fred Viebahn, and their 10-year-old daughter Aviva on a wooded hillside near Charlottesville, Virginia, a 15-minute drive from Monticello. She teaches creative writing at the University of Virginia, which Jefferson founded. And last week she made her public debut...