Word: intellective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Couple, Plaza Suite) and Comedians Tony Randall and Larry Blyden, who performed the skit before 19,000 cheering Eugene McCarthy fans in New York City's Madison Square Garden last week. As the star-fraught spectacular showed, politics this year has attracted an extraordinary input of pulchritude and intellect. In no other election have so many actors, singers, writers, poets, artists, professional athletes and assorted other celebrities signed up, given out and turned on for the candidates...
PHILIPPE ENTREMONT: STRAVINSKY PIANO CONCERTOS (Columbia). Stravinsky's music is more widely respected than beloved; his clean and vigorous sound prods the intellect rather than the emotions. Still it is a pleasure to hear these two intricately constructed concertos-one with orchestra, the other with wind instruments. Pianist Entremont's performance manifests his precise understanding of how they were meant to sound...
...serviceable in the contemporary conflict between Negro and white in American society. Indeed, it is a common fallacy to believe that what is momentarily politically serviceable is ipso facto intellectually virtuous. Even though I understand this viewpoint as held by black nationalists and am indeed compassionate toward it, my intellect rejects it. Like Mary McCarthy, I begin to smell a rat--metaphorically speaking--and feel compelled to dissect...
...structure is one in which you receive quality of grades commensurate with quality of intellectual output. You use your brain, you get a gold star. In its most extreme case, it is scholarship for scholarship's sake. The college supposedly fosters freedom of thought, inventiveness and use of the intellect. Top students spend their time learning to conceptualize, theorize and philosophize...
...fellow with a name that was practically a political key? Frankfurter himself supplied an answer in 1930 when he wrote to his friend Walter Lippmann that if he were in New York he would vote for F.D.R. for Governor, even though "I know his limitations . . . lack of an incisive intellect ... an ambition that leads to compromises." Though Roosevelt was eventually shown this letter by Frankfurter, those reservations seem to have vanished only two years later, when he was assuring "Dear Frank" that he had "equipment of transcendent importance" and a "wide and deep understanding" to bring to the presidency...