Word: intellections
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...current revival by Manhattan's Phoenix Repertory Company shows, Barry was not quite up to the company he tried to keep. He lacked Coward's dry crystal tone, Porter's slyly sexy urban ennui, Fitzgerald's tender romantic imagination and Shaw's intellect. Barry's plays are a little like cocktail parties that have begun to wind down, leaving the guests more prone to hysteria than hilarity...
Tough, quiet-spoken and by no means an unattractive figure, Keeler nevertheless gives the impression of a spirit deliberately blunted, an intellect deliberately narrowed in order to achieve his goal. He makes it across the finish line-a retirement banquet at which he receives diamond-and-emerald cuff links patterned after the Phillips trademark-only to pay, at last, the price for his unquestioning belief that what was good for the corporation was good for him and, indeed, for everybody else. Keeler is now under investigation for authorizing an illegal corporate donation to the Committee for the Re-Election...
...extended Genesis, a promised country where Colonists obeyed the biblical injunction to be fruitful and multiply and subdue the earth. In the following century came the boisterous faith in expansion-the push westward, the promise of the industrial revolution and, always, the unrestricted faith in the marketplace. The creative intellect became intoxicated with progress. Henry Adams squinted and foresaw a new American, "the child of incalculable coal power, chemical power, electrical power and radiating energy ... a sort of God compared with any former creature of nature...
...colliding; the expert crafting from scratch of Tom's skiff; the art of guiding that provides a framework within which Skelton makes his last ditch attempt to integrate his psyche with the natural world. Guiding is a one-man job, but Hemingway style requires full exertion of Skelton's intellect, intuition and physical strength in mastering fishing equipment and tides, navigating channels and neighboring keys, and sniffing out the big permit runs...
...years are finally beginning to show. The onetime 25-mile hikes have been cut to 15. He often drives where he once would have walked. But the startling blue eyes are as keen and alert as ever. So, too, is the intellect of William O. Douglas, 75, who last week became the longest-sitting Justice in the Supreme Court's history, surpassing the 34 years and 195 days served by Stephen J. Field...