Word: intellection
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Pygmalion", the shrewd intellect of Shaw is at its clearest and wittiest. He divides the actual from the supposed or imagined with a two-edged sword. He creates true characters, pleasantly individualized. As in all his best plays, so in "Pygmalion" the dramatic technique is perfect. No machinery creaks, no awkward comings in or goings out mar the uproarious comedy of the five acts. One is haunted by the feeling that taken seriously, Mr. Shaw may turn out to be a serious man, and his plays truer than people think. Alfred Dolittle, as an impersonation of "undeserving poverty", which...
...modern university is not a business college nor a secluded preparatory school, numerous opinions to the contrary, and it never should become either. Instead it offers athletics and competitions as foretastes of the keener "struggle for existence," and courses of study to equip the intellect not with facts but with methods of securing and using them. In this way it can turn out a well grounded and well proportioned man ready for the next step toward the future; provided "Barkis is willing...
...rather a wholly passive form of amusement, an anaesthetic to the intellect. It is the habitual attendance at the moving picture halls night after night, week after week, throughout the year. It is certainly a waste of time, a sapping of your mental energies and turning them wholly aside from the sources of intellectual pleasures which have lasting and satisfying value...
...paid professionals because he has nothing else to do, and the almost equally unconstructive primitive man who was forced to spend all his time in wielding a club. Science, although it has made life too easy for health, has paved the way for the amateur in sport and intellect; but must leave it to the individual to make judicious use of both...
...world in which every mistake has to be paid for. But at the same time it kills the desire to deduce from facts the abstract significance which they present-The student fails to see that the power of generalization is the greatest force possessed by the human intellect, and that facts should be considered only steps by which to rise to those heights where shine, pure and clear, principles and laws...