Word: intellections
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...Museums and Women he succeeds in restoring completeness to our view of the physical world, threatened and impaired by the generalizing blur of communications media, through precise description; and, if his characters muse or mediate, he follows them with the fluidity of a writer who was welded his intellect, insight and emotion into vision. In his less serious pieces he is sometimes simply very funny, filling in the words to a dinosaur tea-party or chronicling the invention of the horse-collar. But his artistic effectiveness derives mostly from his subtleties of form. As if the drama in his allegory...
...thrusts behind the call for sex-blind admissions. Most students at Yale-feel that it is up to the administration to justify the present discriminatory quota policy. The burden is on the administration, the students claim, to explain why women are treated differently when it comes to the human intellect...
...getting old. To Brigitte Bardot, now a hardly senescent 38, it will be "the day I can no longer have the man I'd like." The Vogue magazine interviewer seemed a little shocked. What was Brigitte looking for in a man? "That he attract me physically." What about intellect and all that? "It is difficult for me to get interested in subsidiary qualities." Tenderness? "Tenderness is a concentration of all the habits and all the monotonies, to be avoided with care." After describing herself as "the most important sex symbol of all time," Brigitte observed: "Time will destroy...
...education was random. Their parents taught them the subjects they knew, which meant that Virginia counted on her fingers for life. Clara Pater, Walter's sister, dropped by to dispense a little Greek. Eventually, however, Sir Leslie opened his vast library to his daughters and Virginia's pent-up intellect found release...
STRAIGHT THINKING manifests itself in everyone in varying degrees, and is characterized by several inter-relating "tendencies." First, things are perceived or known through the intellect, which is ordinarily mistaken for the mind itself. False identification of the intellect with the mind prohibits or hinders testing of hypotheses by direct experience, because the mind is so often equated with "ordinary, ego-centered waking consciousness." Straight thinking encourages the thinker to "be attached to the senses and through them to external reality." Sense-perception becomes computer input, and the mind equates that input--external reality--with all of reality, causing...