Word: intellect
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...danger of a teeming cast of malefacting characters: they get jumbled in the viewer's mind, and slack-jawed apathy ensues. Novels can afford a rich banquet of personalities; it's what readers sign up for. But ratiocination isn't welcome in modern movies, which prefer visceral impact over intellect. Not that the film should kowtow to ignorance--only that it might have streamlined the dramatis personae, the better to concentrate on the plot...
Making use of maneuvers like the Sicilian and the Poison Pond, five Harvard undergraduates took on a team from the University of Beijing in the one game of intellect that has transcended national borders for decades. But in the end, the chess match—held from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on both Saturday and Sunday—ended in a disappointing 5-5 tie. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...difficult to make the same case for Marcus Messner, the protagonist of Philip Roth’s 29th book, “Indignation.” As is now common in his novels, Roth writes autobiographically: Marcus is a young Jewish man from Newark, N.J., with a formidable intellect and an equally formidable anxiety. This anxiety first takes hold when his father transforms from a nurturing role model and friend into a fear-ridden monster. Fight after fight leads Marcus to relocate to the town of Winesburg, Ohio, and a college of the same name, in 1951. And here...
...ElBaradei is exactly the kind of person you would want in the role - someone from a developing country who has a Western intellect but a Third World sensitivity." (former U.S. IAEA ambassador John Ritch...
...well-respected ar-teest in awl of London.”“Was,” said The Stable Boy. “He was the most well-respected painter in London.” He paused so as to permit Ollie—hardly the greatest intellect in the brothel—a few futile moments of contemplation. “Shall we be off?” said The Stable Boy.“Yes...of course,” said Ollie.***The stench of fish, sweat, and miscellaneous refuse rose up from London?...