Word: intellections
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...great majority of Harvard men and women must see the indisputable advantages of comradeship in intellect. No more will they shy away from the dank, depressing, surrealistically bleak landscape of Lamont (and Radcliffe Library in its sexless hours). No more will they set up shop to study, only to fall asleep with stunning promptitude...
...fact Dahlberg's autobiography fulfills one of the goals he once set for literature. His book "makes the reader stronger in intellect... and gives him arms and legs he did not have before...
Professor Crane Brinton coaxes the drowsy toward consciousness with History 134a, a study of the European intellect and how it penetrated "downward into the crowd." Geography 101 helps arouse scholars with a stroll through the history of the English landscape, and undergraduates in Nat Sci 6 personally retrace the evolution of human awareness while Professor Howells lectures on the same subject...
...restless intellect, Ipousteguy likes to read widely: Proust, Sartre, Salinger, De Maupassant. He is attracted to painters as different as Turner ("He moves me like music") and the Pre-Raphaelites, and at the same time admires Tarzan comic strips. His resulting meditations lead him to jot down thoughts in a notebook. Mostly they are rather enigmatic: "This dirty juice, this thing much sanctified: this wine. This coward, this backward-looking fugitive: this Hero." But sometimes his jottings illuminate his sculptures-his half-noble, half-ridiculous Goliath, his David triumphant but howling with grief. Writes Ipousteguy: "Disfigured-transfigured, disfiguration-transfiguration; this...
...race problem have for Southerners constrains us from reading Faulkner as a polemic for the 1964 "civil rights" bill. Indeed, you have read into Faulkner a conclusion that a thorough study does not warrant. I find in Faulkner a neurotic impasse between the direction of conscience and intellect, versus the guidance of sentiment, tradition, and the uncommon similarity of experience Southerners live with...