Word: intellective
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clear and luminous intellect, shining with a steady glow, has been a beacon light to many who seek their way amid the tossing waters that surround as, Loving beauty in literature and in art, and seeing the need of it for the delight of life and the refinement of character, he has never allowed his apostleship of beauty to divert him from the pursuit of goodness and truth. His own literary work, pure and simple in style, elevated in feeling, exact and just in thought, has inspired and stimulated not only his own pupils in the great University...
...been withdrawn. Amy Lowell is dead. In her death American literature, undistinguished save for its pitiful cleavage to the dust of mediocrity, has lost one of its few bright lights of promise; and the thought of New England, and particularly of the University, has been deprived of an intellect whose power and originality were of a peculiarly rare and precious sort...
WHAT OF IT?-Ring Lardner-Scribner ($2.00). Shakespeare has often been called, doubtless with complimentary intention, "the myriad-minded." If to be myriad-minded means to have an intellect which is supremely like the intellect of the myriads, Ring Lardner is the Shakespeare of the U. S. In person, great-nosed, lean-a melancholy marabou of a man-he understands as no one else alive the U. S. buddy ballplayer, salesman, cop, yegg, bootlegger and poobah. His wit crackles like static, loud enough to disguise, but never to obscure, the grave or bitter tune that runs behind...
...what I like best in my father is that he appeals to the intellect and is scornful of appeals to emotions alone. At times, he may have appealed to the emotions, but back of the appeal has been a motive finer and deeper than mere theatrical appeal. I have seen him talk to farmers and workingmen on a dull subject like the tariff, and he can make the tariff question so dramatic that he will carry his audience along until he works up to the climax...
...those he won were those that understood him and could appreciate the inner qualities of a remarkable character. As he tobogganed down the easy road of his life and grew just as easily to fame, not many of his enemies could refuse to admit the brilliance of his intellect. He was learned in an exceptional degree, courageous in his opinions and could do three ordinary men's work with comparative ease and great enthusiasm...