Word: intellections
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...reflect on your article, and it seemed to me that in emphasizing the order's spectacular members, of whom there have always been a few, you missed the essence of the Jesuits, the contribution made by the hundreds of Robert Mannings who, through the quiet force of intellect and an unassuming devotion to their vows, have exerted a good influence on an incalculable number of young lives, an influence that can last a lifetime and is frequently passed along to succeeding generations...
...behavorial scientists having second thoughts? Are they simply following an "implacable pattern ingrained in the human intellect," or are their thoughts more closely related to their changing environment than they care to admit...
...form, to the half-articulate, the instinctive: uncensored desire. Me Tarzan, you Raphael. Dubuffet's art speaks directly to anyone who wants to abolish the humanist past-that area of art that insists that man is the flower of the universe and can, by force and subtlety of intellect, control it. His images assert the opposite: a nude becomes a lump of hairy pink clay with a pinhead, swagging numbles and a skin so gouged by fissures, cracks and graffiti that it is on the verge of turning into a landscape. The hierarchy of human to animal to vegetable...
...story is too traditionally Truffaut -- a confrontation of innocence (equated with intellect) and brazen, vulgar ignorance that becomes a gutter sophistication. The ending, with Camille's inexplicable ascendance and her final betrayal, are barely believable. Truffaut assists her with a foil in Helene; nondescript where Camille is vibrant, proper where she is vulgar, and whose studied disapproval of the experiment masks incipient love. At the end of the film she and Camille pass at the jailer's desk during visiting hours; Camille on her way out, Helene unable to get in. As the film ends, she types the manuscript...
...trusted it -- because he knew the rhythms would keep on dancing happily at his listeners' eardrums -- like Bach, he let the parts interact as freely and as clashingly as they wanted to, without needing to worry about whether people would be able to follow it. So with the dance, intellect came back into music, and with it the sometimes painful irony that contemporary history entailed...