Word: intellective
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...rulings turned their joy to outrage. In an afternoon ritual that showed no sign of abating, they pelted Milosevic's ministries with snowballs, eggs and paper airplanes while serenading his government's empty office windows with catcalls, whistles, kazoos and jeers. Prominent among them was Djindjic, 44, his charisma, intellect and charm suddenly allowed full play in what had become not only a Serbian theater but also a world forum. Foreigners were even learning to pronounce his name (the dj sounds like the g in ginger). By last week the remarkable display had some crowd watchers looking for signs...
...come, so he came, that's all," thus admitting that he really didn't have much to say. Why are these people so defensive? I think it's because they know that Gibson's "speech" was a mockery of the Harvard tradition of the exercise of reason and intellect, but they don't want to admit that they were suckered into going. They know that the emperor wears no clothes...
...Crimson article mentioned that the audience was "predominantly female"; obviously a lot of women were drawn not by Gibson's intellect but his sex appeal. What's next? Will Pamela Anderson Lee be invited to talk about how grueling those "Baywatch" shoots are, so hundreds of Harvard's male under-graduates can ogle and drool? This is supposed to be Harvard University, the finest school in this hemisphere, if not the world. It has been host to many speakers of first-rate intellect who came to impart their knowledge and wisdom to the students. Mel Gibson doesn't belong here...
...suppose the main thing that we've learned from this experience is that the feelings we had about him--his talent, intellect, gift for friends, compassion--were shared by many other people," said his father, Michael, who is the dean of music at Rice University in Houston...
...best, Carpenter paints moods. What If We Went to Italy is a seductive lilt about a lazing lover's itinerary. In Ideas Are Like Stars, inspired by artist Joseph Cornell, she considers, with a child's severe wonder, the expanse of the human intellect. Ideas "teach you to fly without wires or thread/ They promise if only you'd let them." The music is a lovely droning that sounds like signals from a sympathetic galaxy. The majestic center of Carpenter's strongest album yet, the song reminds us of the universe of emotions--and ideas--that artists like Carpenter...