Word: intellection
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Measures of intelligence are inevitably imperfect and contingent on concepts of what "intelligence" consists in. Last week's mishap serves as another reminder of the flexibility of the human mind in evading narrow constructions which would define its capacities. It also challenges those who would evaluate intellect to question, and perhaps to broaden, their criteria...
This week has already brought Colin Rizzio an acceptance from one college to which he had applied. Perhaps, while he is still in the mood for filling out applications, he should look into a position at ETS as well; as his discovery has demonstrated, even those who would evaluate intellect still have something to learn...
...roles in A pictures: as Sean Penn's nemesis in Oliver Stone's U-Turn and as James Carville, more or less, in the Mike Nichols film Primary Colors. "He's a redneck artist," says Nichols. "Like Nicholson, Travolta and Whoopi Goldberg, he can play street characters with enormous intellect. He has a genius for connecting with people...
...lucky with some basic programming, then hired the right marketing gurus and cornered the emerging software market. Gates' pathological personality traits show him to be more akin to Attila the Hun and Genghis Khan than Albert Einstein; his ruthless and paranoid approach to business practice is driven not by intellect but by pathetic will-to-power. JAIMIE BUCHANAN Toronto...
Both his love and his criticism are tempered by his keen intellect and the immigrant's perspective on what he found in this country that was utterly different from what he left in Nazi Europe. As a young man, he is struck by the silliness of American attention to newspaper comic strips. He sees Superman as "something out of Nietzsche and vaguely associated with Nazi theories of a master race." But in the same strip he is able to see the positive side to this American absurdity: "I sensed America's ability to domesticate menace and shrink giants...