Word: intellection
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Justice White, 67, a former pro-football running back who outmuscles his clerks at pickup basketball games in the court's gymnasium, was long known as a careful jurist who heeded precedent and avoided substituting his personal views. He has the intellect and force to be a natural leader, but he keeps his own counsel, rarely opening up to his colleagues or even his clerks. Lately White seems to be moving to the right. He authored a series of conservative decisions last term on procedural rights for criminals, affirmative action and free speech. White voted with the conservative wing...
...Kippur discourses, Soloveitchik explores the nature of humanity's less exalted side: sinfulness. As the Rav sees it, the intellect plays hardly any role in the soul's move from sin toward repentance, nor is the "ethical sense" very powerful. Rather, says Soloveitchik, contrition is an "aesthetic experience" of revulsion against sin's corruption...
When Pete Hamill labels Shirley MacLaine's spiritual beliefs "intellectually ridiculous," he is correct. But the same words would have to be applied to love, dreams and what most of us experience as beauty. My thanks to Shirley for the reminder that a life governed by intellect alone is an impoverished one indeed...
...described with uncommon clarity, as is the ordeal of a young woman whose cancer was obliterated but who later died of another disease. More neutral and less self-consciously uplifting than Pepper's book, Life and Death on 10 West often strikes at the heart and informs the intellect with more force than We the Victors. Both works, however, have splendidly succeeded in substituting the human reality for the demonic metaphor...
...believe that the overly competitive atmosphere here has an enormous amount to do with this loneliness. As Dr. Blaine again observes: "Men and women who are being compared in regard to their intellect, creativity, and conscientiousness--as students tend to be when they are competing for grades--become ill at ease and even suspicious in their dealings with each other." In some countries, such as Japan, where the number of places in universities is quite limited and almost everything in terms of success in later life depends on one's performance on a few examinations, such self-hate and rejection...