Word: intellection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This year, as in 1891 and in 1922, critics dispute his talents. To be sure they do it reverently as befits a colossus who has been endowed with intellect, imagination, magnetism. Yet they chide him gently for banging at the piano, for sliding over details and being content too often with broad jagged splashes of color, for limited programs that have been given over and over again. Paderewski takes no notice. He never reads the reviews of his concerts. His life is his own. He sits up far into the night, practices, plays cribbage with Mme. Paderewski, stays...
Ridiculous. The girl was no....ahem..."flapper". Those clear eyes were to transparently frank to habour double meanings, or shall we call it double entente? Was she a philosopher?....Did that noble brow shield an intellect comparable to her outward beauty?..Was this her philosophy of life...
...will be more than an exhibition of forensics; its larger meaning will not be restricted to respective arguments of negative and positive but rather will it tend to an actual exposition of a theory--that the strongest unifying bonds between two countries are those of its vouth and its intellect. Tonight's meeting combines both elements. The CRIMSON gladly recommends the contest as an antidote to that comedy of errors now taking place in Chicago...
...ethics of Jesus are the fragmentary ethics of a defeated intellect, the exhortation of a noble man perplexed by the concrete discordance of a 'pain-economy'--to borrow Professor Patten's graphic phrase...
...pedagogical jests, smile understandingly at his well-known eccentricities, make their pretty eyes look deep and sympathetic when he comes to the point of his discourse. Thus do the wily coeds, whose actual intelligence measures but 25 on a scale of 100, compensate for a ten-point deficiency in intellect, and extract grades equal to those attained by charmless male students whose measure of intelligence on the same scale is 35. Authority for this condition is Dr. George Thomas, president of the University of Utah, who lately cautioned his faculty members to guard against such insidious influence, prevalent in most...