Word: intellective
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...This was the place that nourished her keen intellect," Alger said. "Today's setting is indeed a perfect tribute...
...have to wonder, if Playboy editors themselves were so impressed with this woman's intellect, why they didn't decide to have her pose in the nude with a feminist revison of Dostoyevsky's The Sisters Karamazov in her hand? Victoria herself expressed some disappointment that the photo shoot didn't quite stimulate her in the way she thought it would...
...Zdrok's actions play right into the notion of woman as sex object, according to Andrea Walsh, lecturer in Social Studies and Women's Studies. "Whatever she says about her intellect is contradicted by her image," Walsh says. "It perpetuates the idea that women's bodies are objects to be consumed by the male viewer...
...brilliant, self-absorbed and slightly chilly young woman who goes home grudgingly from a promising magazine job in Manhattan to tend her dying mother. She's the only acceptable nurse. Her college-age brothers can't help much. Besides, her pampered father, a philandering literature professor on whose preening intellect she has modeled her own, has demanded that she come. Ellen, once the town prodigy, now awkwardly learns to change sheets and cook supper...
...might be away from the table. Magnificently rumpled, intensely convivial though a teetotaler, flamboyant ("He always spoke ex cathedra," says a senior editor), Bill was a vivid personality in an era when journalists tend to be a bland, earnest bunch. Everything he did was distinguished by a first-class intellect, which showed in his polished prose, his ability to organize complex material, and his ceaseless flow of ideas. But from his newspaper days he retained, along with two Pulitzer Prizes, a bracing professionalism. He never turned down an assignment, and he attacked even the most mundane task as if another...