Word: intellection
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...loans; those who most need federal assistance to overcome long-standing disadvantages would be locked out of the classroom and laboratory. University presidents have already warned the White House that an entire generation of scholars and professionals could be shaped largely on the basis of cold cash rather than intellect or ambition...
...rushes through a speech as if it were a tongue-twister. Every line in her Method-y delivery proclaims, "I've been through analysis," making her an aural, if not visual anachronism. (This is an era when Freud was still playing with little boys.) Keaton can't convey intellect the way Maureen Stapleton, in fine full figure and sturdy croak...
...supposedly leaves thinkers catabolic (literally) and a brief parable of a man with no head. Often the pieces do not seem to interrelate, but the editors don't intend them to. Their only goal is to present ideas which will undermine the reader's complacent view of his own intellect...
Gance deliberately chooses as Napoleon a man abjectly lacking in charm or good looks. He does not want a Napoleon God-sent to save France in her hour of desperation, but a man of flesh and intellect. The protagonist, played by Albert Dieudonne, is a short, unimpressive young man. His long hair hangs listlessly about his shoulders, his arms clasped tightly behind him. But for his eyes, his face is hard and ex- pressionless, the face of a bandit or a martyr. His eyes are sharp, black. They scrutinize, and they attack...
Sadat was a very great man who made the difficult seem effortless. The difference between great and ordinary leaders is rarely formal intellect but insight. The great man understands the essence of a problem; the ordinary leader grasps only the symptoms. The great man focuses on the relationship of events to each other; the ordinary leader sees only a series of seemingly disconnected events. The great man has a vision of the future that enables him to place obstacles into perspective; the ordinary leader turns pebbles in the road into boulders...