Word: intellective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...supervised and unsupervised student governments and publications. The latter "serve a more real need than student governments if only because their activities have to be thought out sufficiently to be written down. Student newspapers are inane enough, but where there is a spark of undergraduate imagination, sometimes even intellect, it often shows itself here." A reform in extracurricular activities seems unlikely to the author since "the genius of the American university ...is its capacity to create positions within itself for all those it has trained to be useless elsewhere...
...English, and it is clear that both the complexity-and the startling beauty-of his writings derive from the fact that Borges rates poetical insight a good deal higher than analytical thought. "To think is to forget differences, generalize, make abstractions," he writes. "There is no exercise of the intellect which is not, in the final analysis, useless." Seeing Sharply. Borges' stories take place in a world that is half commonplace, half fantastic. Dreams occur within dreams; time loses its significance. What counts is momentary impulse and observation. A story mysteriously titled Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius concerns...
...aisles of the A.& P. on a Saturday afternoon, he wheeled the sheeniest photographers' models through the aisles of the shiniest cafes and the columns of the gossipiest peepholers. He exhibited no head for business, no great ambition to further the family fortunes, no inclination to develop his intellect beyond the requirements of a bachelor's degree at Harvard. He was, in short, a jaded neon scion, sputtering in the dark...
...charges made by the student government in the emergency resolution centered on "irresponsible use of University funds" and the publication of a parody described by the Association as "libelous and vulgar, and in general an insult to the intellect and morals of the University." The parody was of the Pennsylvania News, a women's activities weekly, Longley said the parody had "great sexual overtones...
...wound did not really heal until this century. Yet as far back as 1852, Britain's John Henry Cardinal Newman wrote The Idea of a University, a plea for "cultivation of the intellect." Newman held that a university "is not a convent, not a seminary; it is a place to fit men of the world for the world...