Word: intellective
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...host and actor seemed to have it all -- wit, charm, fame and fortune. But behind the glib facade, Cavett was falling apart. About 12 years ago, a chronic depression that had haunted him for years rose up and began undermining what he believed was his most valuable asset: his intellect. He became convinced that his brain was "broken" and that life without it was hardly worth living. "Everything seemed to be growing gray," he recalls. "All the things that used to give me pleasure suddenly weren't worth the effort...
...Increase Your Intelligence Using the Latest Discoveries in Neuroscience, by gerontologist Ward Dean and science writer John Morgenthaler. It lists three dozen steroids for the brain, or, to the cognoscenti, "nootropics" (from the greek noos, for mind). The authors claim that these substances resuscitate memory, jump-start the intellect, fuel sex drive and even reverse the mental aging process. Some, like the drugs Hydergine and piracetam, are prescription medications that have been tested as potential treatments for degenerative illnesses like Alzheimer's. Smart drinks are generally mixed from nonprescription food supplements like amino acids, the building blocks of proteins...
President Comstock spoke wisely in 1941 whenshe said that the intellect and the discipline wewere developing would serve us well in maturity.Many members of our class became part of thewomen's movement in the 1950s and later...
...flip side of her passionate commitment and shatara (an admiring Arabic word for intellect and savvy) is an arrogance that makes her bluntly impatient with anyone less smart, less quick, less decisive. She can assume too much and forget who really is boss. After she independently agreed with Baker in Madrid that Washington would be the venue for bilateral talks with the Israelis, Yasser Arafat himself slapped her down. "Who appointed you," he reportedly asked, "Baker or me?" (She is careful to admit no connection to the P.L.O...
...paradoxes and parallels; others, though, will be exhilarated by Swift's ability to make his terminally cerebral subject readable, and real. And they will be touched, too, by a moving breakthrough at the end that suggests Swift, unlike many of his contemporaries, really does believe that "no breadth of intellect exonerates want of feeling." Ever After is a supremely intelligent novel about the need to transcend intelligence...