Word: intellections
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...where Ottoline held court a number of times. She was horrified when she read the description of Hermione, "a tall, slow, reluctant woman...who drifted forward as if scarcely conscious, her long blanched face lifted up, not to see the world." Hermoine is presented as a creature of the intellect, whose intense passion is only superficial. Like Ottoline, she dresses in bright, untidy flowing clothes; like Ottoline, she surrounds herself with people who act on her as intellectual stimulants...
...cannot go on indefinitely faulting Kubrick for the emotional content of the film. His last few films have been primarily intellectual. Unfortunately the field of the intellect here is as barren as the emotional landscape. Those of us who look to Kubrick as one of the few major directors capable of dealing with important issues on a grand scale must be disappointed. The film bypasses all the historical and social issues of the period in which it ostensibly takes place. The eighteenth century functions as a backdrop and no more. George III puts in a cameo appearance and speaks...
...Dylan. For several years she was a Jehovah's Witness; later she dipped into Oriental religions. As a teenager, she drew furiously, then turned to calligraphy and finally to poetry. Says she: "Art takes the primitive and pumps it up real high from the heart to the intellect. Those who are illuminated can transform sensation into something that everybody can taste...
However deep her compassion for the poor, Mother Teresa nurses no hatred for the rich. She joyfully shows a scrapbook of pictures of orphans she has placed in affluent homes in the U.S. and Europe. But she is also alert to the perils of contemporary civilization. "Our intellect and other gifts have been given to be used for God's greater glory," she says, "but sometimes they become the very god for us. That is the saddest part: we are losing our balance when this happens. We must free ourselves to be filled by God. Even God cannot fill...
...Attorney General in the 1960s, and now is chairman of the American Bar Association committee that reviews U.S. Supreme Court nominations. He also has been an adviser to the State Department on tariff policy. Willard Wirtz, 63, originally of Chicago, now a Washington lawyer, is a first-rate intellect, a rousing speechmaker, and did well as Secretary of Labor in the '60s and as adviser to both Adlai Stevenson and Hubert Humphrey...