Word: intellective
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rather extreme to expect that these satires will rouse the Spanish in defense of their liberties. For, after all, satire implies a considerable degree of intellect on the part of the reader, and can never be as successful with the masses as downright and obvious abuse. Nevertheless the world outside of Spain finds in the affair a hint of the days when literature had a dash of spiteful fire, and principles had not yet succeeded to the commercial urge. Bagaria will, perhaps, never attain to the immortality of Swift, but his is the honor of adding at least...
...condition of education and religion in the United States. It is possible, of course, that the Klan may some day decide to support something reasonable like the rights of the middle class. No such comparatively broad-minded decision can be hoped for, however, until a few men of intellect have supplanted the midnight masqueraders as members. But then with men of intellect in its ranks the Klan will be no longer the Klan...
...dismay of the worthy rector is too close a copy of the early nineteenth century reaction in English universities. The stupid oppression of nearsighted authority drove Shelley from Oxford, when he published a pamphlet on atheism. It could not see that these were the growing pains of vigorous young intellect. It could not foresee that the orthodoxy whose purity they tried to maintain unattached by heresy, would pale gradually before the onslaught of the mind until these cherished tenets of theological metaphysics were held only in the background and with deepest reservations by their apostolic successors, until the science...
They pay their fees, attend the lectures or not, as they see fit, sit in groups at the little inn over fish dinners and feasts of the intellect. During past weeks, among the lecturers have been: Sinclair Lewis (Bolshevism in books), Floyd Dell (psychology), Prof. Richard Swann Lull of Yale University (zoology...
Although Mr. La Follette did not appear in Cleveland himself, his wishes were carried out by Governor Blaine and by his own son, Bob, Jr. The younger La Follette, aggressive, meticulous in dress, much resembles his father. In keenness of intellect, perhaps, the son does not measure up to his father. But he is an effective worker for his father's cause, and under his direction the 28 La Follettemen did their appointed task...