Word: intellects
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mailer finally does not use history but succumbs to it. Those who want to read about the real CIA can profitably dip into some of the more than 80 books the author lists in a bibliography at the end. Those eager to read Norman Mailer, his unique imagination and ( intellect reshaping the known world, should read the opening pages of Harlot's Ghost and hope, someday, for more of the same...
...Herman's Head, the discord has spread to the main character's subconscious. As a young magazine researcher plows through a typical day, his four inner "selves" -- representing intellect, anxiety, sensitivity and lust -- compete for control. The device generates some laughs but starts wearing thin before the first episode is even finished...
...ever embraced life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness more lustily. An Emersonic boom was his, and Whitmanic energy. Like Emerson, he saw the Greek roots in enthusiasm -- the word means divine possession -- and knew that the poet "speaks adequately only when he speaks somewhat wildly . . . Not with intellect alone, but with intellect inebriated by nectar." And like Whitman, his fellow rhapsodist of Brooklyn, he sang only of himself -- in that great American form, the comic-romantic monologue -- but found in the self everything he needed: "If we have not found heaven within, it is a certainty we will...
...what of the following sentence: "Unlike earlier periods when one demonstrated one's intellect by how much one knew, i.e., how many facts one has at her/his command, increasingly we recognize the mark of intellect to be the capacity independently to analyze, manipulate, synthesize and critically interpret information in the interest of problem solving." In other words, it is now more important to know how to think than to have anything concrete to think about. Perhaps facts can be imported from Japan. Now, may we see a show of hands on all this...
...Rehnquist is the muscle behind the present conservative majority, Scalia provides the intellect. Despite his affable manner, Scalia can be intense in debate and uncompromising in his rulings. As the only present court member who was once a full-time law professor, he is prone to lecture his colleagues -- sometimes in injudicious terms. In a 1988 concurring opinion, for example, he called one of O'Connor's arguments "irrational" and said of another that "it cannot be taken seriously...