Word: intellection
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that attracts people to Massachusetts? Or could it be the proximity to the beaches and mountains? Seattle and San Francisco have beaches and mountains, too, and people there aren't nearly as neurotic. true, Boston has a flourishing intellectual and artistic life, but if you're craving arts and intellect, then why not New York City? (I know why not New York City, but I thought only born-and-bred Bostonians like me realized that when you pare away the grime, violence, stress, affection and ennui, New York is just a wannabe...
...today's market." Randall E. Sekeres of Atlanta believes we aimed "for the cheap laugh." Chris Danielson of Houston wonders, "How can you endorse the use of the word nerd? Granted, the , supernerds may be engaging in unusual business practices, but that is no reason to deride their intellect. I am a high school honors student, and I have been called a nerd by people who are a lot dumber than I am -- and, believe me, I mean a lot. Since when is it a crime to be smart...
...want people to attend to what you'resaying, you have to appeal to their emotions, notjust their intellect," says DeVore. "Humor hasclassically been one of the safer emotions...
Hillary Rodham Clinton is by all accounts a brilliant intellect and a world- class professional legal expert ((THE WHITE HOUSE, March 21)). That's why I find her self-portrayal as a victim of poor record keeping for Whitewater simply not believable. How can the Clintons expect us to trust their replanning of health care, one-seventh of the U.S. economy, if they can't properly account for a single real estate investment...
Indeed, I used to pride myself on the razor-sharp intellect that I displayed when under intense and overwhelming pressure, and I was feeling up to the challenge of lashing together 24 pages of some of the most incisive wit and elegant writing at Harvard, or anywhere, for that matter...