Word: intellects
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
Tribe also said he felt remorse for cultivatingthe skills and intellect of students who resort tosuch parody...
...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...
...just anyone can get into the stacks," theofficial said. "It was probably a member of theHarvard community, and with that comes a certainpresumption of their intellect. Add that to thevastness of the library, and the case is a hardone to solve...