Word: intellects
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...whole, his intellect prevailed; as new readers continually discover, Jarrell became one of the best and probably the most erudite of American literary critics in this century. The question "Have you read . . .?" recurs often in his letters, and he seems to have read nearly everything: psychology, anthropology, quantum mechanics, most of English and American literature, German folklore, sports-car magazines, science-fiction pulp, the comic strip Terry and the Pirates. He was also quirky and instinctive, peppering his letters with slang like "gee" and "do-vey" (meaning good) and bursts of imagination: "I felt quite funny when Freud died...
...curtain of a waterfall. The man, with machine gun poised to fire, represents civilization and its discontents; the boy, his bow and arrow taut, seems very much the noble savage painted in jungle pastels. In Deliverance, Zardoz, Exorcist II: The Heretic and Excalibur, Boorman set these same elemental antagonists, intellect and instinct, on a collision course. Here, though, he has added a crucial twist. Tomme (Charley Boorman) is the man's son, abducted by a Brazilian Indian tribe a decade earlier and raised as a wild child. For Tomme, his father (Powers Boothe) has existed only in the still pools...
...dichotomy between thought, as expressed in language, and feelings, which require some other sort of symbolic portrayal, like art. In Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling, her three-volume masterwork published between 1967 and 1982, she conceives of feelings as the vital process of the mind and argues that "intellect is a high form of feeling...
Ruth has astounded the faculty at St. Hugh's with the range of her intellect and the ease with which she masters subjects. In one seminar, while other students were struggling with a complex theorem that an academician was elaborating on a blackboard, Lawrence pointed out an error that the lecturer had made. She raced through Oxford's three-year course in two years. Her test papers were spun out with little apparent need to pause over the most puzzling problems. "I think while I write," she explains with a shrug. Mathematics appeals to her spirit of discovery, she says...
...while a lack of kindness is a serious issue—after all, some talented professors are now threatening to leave because of it—isn’t a lack of kindness more easily fixed than a lack of intellect, or a lack of competence? And to those who argue that we shouldn’t have to make that choice (and I agree) my answer is this: After all he’s done for Harvard, as a star economist and in his three years as president, we owe Larry Summers at least a chance to change...