Word: intellect
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...Jacques Derrida had been born a Kennedy, he might have come close to matching Ludwig Wittgenstein's curious combination of affluence and intellect. Wittgenstein was both a philosopher of towering importance and the scion of one of the wealthiest and most influential families in Europe. He was also a scarily intense guy. On Oct. 25, 1946, he attended a Cambridge University discussion group at which Karl Popper, another major thinker, was the guest speaker. The evening ended in bedlam when Wittgenstein threatened Popper with a poker...
...Like father, like son,” Palmer said. “We are paying the price for President George W. Bush’s failures of intellect and imagination...
...pleasures of being at Harvard are the caliber and intellect of people that one interacts with on a daily basis,” he said...
...each crowned with an unassuming hexagon, cut large swaths across the page (not, mind you, the canvass), and converge on a fourth prosaic stroke. It is almost entirely visually uninteresting and the negative space accounts for the vast majority of the framed image. It represents a feat of the intellect, not one of the imagination-it is, again, a scholastic exercise and has little to do with beauty and visual representation. It is perhaps the least apt model for budding visual artists to follow, since it imposes on them a theoretical framework without encouraging the development of a dynamic visual...
...Kennedy School student voiced his disapproval. “I know what they were trying to do, but I don’t think it worked” he declared. “I thought the whole question and answer session was crude to the point of underestimating the intellect of its target audience. Trent Thompson, a first year student in the Masters of Public Policy program was less vehement in his assessment. “I felt like the whole point was to teach America about terrorism and on that point it was good,” Thompson explained...