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...which 65,000 Europeans, 165,000 Asians and 35,500 Arabs hold more seats and power than do 6,000,000 Africans. The Africans demand universal suffrage, one-man-one-vote democracy, and full independence now. Macleod may not want to give it "now," but his sharp, trained intellect (he is an international-class bridge player) is sufficiently acute to recognize that there can be no solid African policy in Kenya without the support of the vast African majority...
Fortunately, a third-rate intellect is not necessarily an altogether negligible artist. When Mr. Meyer conceptualizes his subject matter, he is lost; by embodying it directly in his characters, he makes Children of Darkness strangely compelling. It is not through what he tells us, but through what he shows us, that we catch a glimpse of evil as an absolute, an ingrained disposition towards total selfishness, a combination of the willingness and the ability to blight lives, rather than a mere evaluation derived from totaling up a number of acts. At moments, evil lives on Mr. Mayer's stage...
Einstein's theory of relativity was one of the giant leaps of the human intellect. So impressive was it that for years most physicists have accepted it as the fundamental law of the universe, even though no one had devised methods or machines sensitive enough to verify it completely. Last week its most basic concept triumphantly passed the most rigorous test...
...HOUSE OF INTELLECT, by Jacques Barzun. An uneven but provocative attack on mass culture and mass education, in the name of old-fashioned discipline and logic...
...however, in one's interest in Lichtenberg. Though writing during the Enlightenment, he is definitely oriented towards the modern world. What Lichtenberg has to say about his own day is quite applicable to our own: "Man is so perfectible and corruptible that he can become a madman through sheer intellect...