Word: intellective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...maintains, on one hand, that there are masters whose classic discipline is essential to composition, and on the other, that in the end "all these things have nothing to do with logic," that is, that composition must not be tied to intellect...
Much of what the seaboards have gained, the vast land area in between has lost−in population and power, in industry, and even in intellect. Michigan, long the symbol of American industrial go-getiveness, last year got only 2.7% of the defense prime contracts (against 9.5% in 1951-53)-Illinois got 2%. The seaboard centers have been a magnet in a selective sense−the populations flocking to California are not merely the sun-seeking oldsters, and certainly not the Okies of the 1930s, but often the youngest and brightest, most proficient and promising, most ambitious and adventurous...
Moore, Donald Babcock Professor of Philosophy at the University of New Hampshire, described existentialism as a combination of elements from the empirical and idealist traditions. Existentialism views man both as an object in the world committed to his relationship with other objects and as an intellect estranged and withdrawn from the world...
...sense that I am withdrawn," Moore continued, "I also want to go back to the thing I am, the thing I identify myself with embrace, and care for--something concrete, active, and committed as opposed to an impersonal intellect...
...adduces appalling figures to show that as many as a third of the students in freshmen classes have had to take remedial courses (which he calls "the fourth R"). This leads him to probe the conflict between the democratic ideal of education for all and the indisputable inequality of intellect, an I.Q. of 110 being considered minimal for "a reasonable chance of mastering the four-year college program." Less than half of currently enrolled freshman can be considered as good risks. On the other hand, a lack of motivation keeps half of the top quarter of college-age youth from...