Word: intellective
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...long now has the world sprung away from religion and faith that it may be ready to move back toward a compromise. Our 19th century ancestors did a thorough job of divorcing feeling from intellect. Your 20th century ancestors are beginning to seek a reconciliation. For all our dials and buttons, we have known from the start how helpless we often are before the consequences of our ingenuity. One still sees a lot of machinery these days, but very little machine worship, and almost none of the irrational overconfidence in human knowledge that the 19th century willed...
...himself off from Congress and the press, Poindexter was further undermined by placing too much trust in a small group of action-oriented staffers who often skirted normal channels. Finally, there was the death from cancer last summer of his deputy, Donald Fortier, who had exhibited considerable intellect as well as political savvy...
...Wishing Carter a happy birthday, Reagan, 75, grinned as he assured him, "Life begins at 70." He complimented the onetime Georgia Governor for his civil rights leadership in the South and handed him a verbal bouquet, a thank-you for "gracing the White House with your passion and intellect and commitment." In turn, Carter thanked his successor for his "generous, gracious and thoughtful" remarks. The warmth Reagan conveyed in his speech, added Carter, made him understand "more clearly than I have ever before in my life why you won in November 1980 and I lost...
President Ronald Reagan lacks a vibrant intellect and vital knowledge, two former presidential advisors told a Kennedy School audience last night in a symposium entitled "Presidential Leadership 1936-1986: FDR, JFK and Reagan...
Wyzanski enjoyed a reputation for a rarely equalled intellect and a fondness for friendly debate. "He had a talent for provoking people into discussion and disputation," said Law School Professor Emeritus Paul A. Freund, a longtime friend...