Word: intellections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thurstone's tests furnished scientific evidence that, while people who rank high in one mental ability are likely to score well in the others, frequently an individual may be strong in one faculty, weak in another. Thus people of superior intellect sometimes have poor memory. An individual may have a good memory for faces and a poor one for names, or vice versa. In the one case he ranks low in ability with words; in the other, he is deficient in visual imagery...
...close comparison between Granville Hicks and Al Capone. In so doing, he revealed clearly the attitude toward Communism of a group well represented throughout the country. To this group, the difference between a Red and a hardened criminal is negligible; all Communists are evil in intent, warped in intellect--shadowy monsters to be hated and feared. Such a deplorable recrudescence of superstition in our supposedly enlightened America is nursed by many things--home environment, the natural hostility of those in economic security toward any possible disruptive force--but primarily, as with every other superstition, this one is based on ignorance...
...moved by an intense jealousy against some of his associates on the Board, and that his jealousy has led him beyond reason and beyond logic. When jealousy, that green-eyed monster, obtains possession of the human heart, it is not long until it has control of the human intellect, the human mind...
...adult who judges art by its intellect, the art of children is necessarily primitive, sometimes amusing. To an adult who looks on art as a floodgate for the imagination, child art has lately become a fascinating affair. Muddlers who hold either view as occasion in Manhattan demands found occasion last week to hold the second. On the walls of the big mezzanine galleries of Rockefeller Center's International Building were posted more than 1,000 crayon, tempera and water color drawings by children in 530 U. S. and Canadian schools, an exhibition sponsored by the public-school art directors...
...meantime another problem, more difficult to solve, is making itself apparent. For syphilis is rapidly being outranked as the nation's major social disease by the morbid, evil-minded, and sadistic trend of the public press, which can have no good effect on the morals or intellect of the people. This is a subject that may well be carried to the dinner-table, for the trend has already gone...