Word: intellective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bergman who made this movie still had akvavit in his veins. Intellect, that glittering and treacherous Snow Queen, had not yet struck her icy sliver into his heart...
When Barbra Streisand talks, she gets lost in the trackless deserts of her burgeoning vocabulary. "Creativity is like a part of perversion," she will begin, "like a thing that goes inward for emotion, not responsively, because intellect is bad for what I do." Such thoughts always bring her to a helpless "Know what I mean?" And no one ever does. But when she sings, everyone knows exactly what she means; even with a banal song, she can hush a room as if she really had something worth saying...
...Bacon. And in 1592, when most of today's complex sciences had not even been conceived, he was neither idly boasting nor wildly exaggerating. But among the many things that Bacon did not know was that despite his encyclopedic knowledge and the amazing breadth and power of his intellect, he was using little more than half his brain. Not until one short century ago did neurologists learn that one half of the brain-nearly always the left, especially in right-handed people-controls the movements of the opposite side of the body and the all-important human attribute...
Probably no British government, faced with such momentous and obdurate problems, could have had an easy time of it. Macmillan has found it particularly difficult, the Economist suggested last week, because by instinct and intellect he is more enthused by "sepia illustrations of great moments in British history" than by the unique opportunity that has been offered his nation to help unite Europe and to serve as its bridge to the rest of the free world. Instead, Harold Macmillan for the past six years has chosen to emphasize Britain's "special relationship" with...
...steroid compounds, Rock explained, are simply adjuncts to nature: the physiology of the safe period, marked by the production of progesterone, is identical with the effects of Enovid. Just as a woman's body has cycles to protect its offspring, a woman has an intellect to safeguard her marriage. "It may even be immoral," Rock said, "to refuse to use the intellect...