The New York Times has described Mahmood as " an autodidact intellectual with grand aspirations ," and noted that " his colleagues began to wonder if Mahmood was mentally sound.

The Crane sons, who possess fine tastes, intellectual interests, and high opinions of themselves, frequently clash with their blue-collar, down-to-earth father.

This was an important time in Borduas ' life: « by meeting young men of his own generation with the same tastes and the same need for action, he finally discovered a stimulating intellectual and social environment ».

Zeldin's masterpiece is A History of French Passions ( originally published as France, 1848 – 1945 in the Oxford History of Modern Europe ), an idiosyncratic work examining the ambitions and frustrations, intellectual and imaginative life, tastes and prejudices of a vast range of people.

Grimm wrote newsletters to various high personages in Germany, reporting the happenings of art and literature in Paris, then the intellectual capital of Europe.

The dandy cultivated skeptical reserve, yet to such extremes that the novelist George Meredith, himself no dandy, once defined " cynicism " as " intellectual dandyism "; nevertheless, the Scarlet Pimpernel is one of the great dandies of literature.

Controversies lend rabbinic literature much of its creative and intellectual appeal.

But he chose instead to pursue a career as an intellectual, studying and later writing on a broad range of topics, including education, history, literature, and sociology.

In his early years Banach was tutored by Juliusz Mien, a French intellectual and friend of the Płowa family, who had emigrated to Poland and supported himself with photography and translations of Polish literature into French.

Other prominent academics associated with the University include Geoffrey Bennington, the creator of the MA programme in Modern French Thought ( Derrida, Lyotard ); Homi K. Bhabha ( postcolonialism ); Rachel Bowlby ( feminism, Woolf, Freud ); Geoff Cloke FRS ( Inorganic Chemistry ); Jonathan Dollimore ( Renaissance literature, gender and queer studies ); Katy Gardner ( social anthropology ); Gabriel Josipovici ( Dante, the Bible ); Michael Land FRS ( Animal Vision-Frink Medal )); Michael Lappert FRS ( Inorganic Chemistry ); Alan Lehmann FRS ( Genetics and Genome Stability ); ( Laura Marcus ( Woolf ); John Murrell FRS ( Theoretical Chemistry ); Peter Nicholls ( Pound, modernism ); John Nixon FRS ( Inorganic Chemistry )); Laurence Pearl FRS ( Structural Biology ); Guy Richardson FRS ( Neuroscience ); Jacqueline Rose ( feminism, psychoanalysis ); Nicholas Royle ( modern literature and theory ; deconstruction ); Alan Sinfield ( Shakespeare, sexuality, queer theory ); Norman Vance ( Victorian, classical reception ); Richard Whatmore & Knud Haakonssen ( intellectual historians ); Gavin Ashenden ( Senior Lecturer in English, University Chaplain, and Chaplain to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II ; Cedric Watts ( Conrad, Greene ); Marcus Wood ( postcolonialism ).

* Philosopher John Searle suggests that the Western canon can be roughly defined as " a certain Western intellectual tradition that goes from, say, Socrates to Wittgenstein in philosophy, and from Homer to James Joyce in literature ..."

This period is frequently cited as one of those with the highest level of intellectual production in human history ; Germany was the country with the most advanced science, technology, literature, philosophy and art.

* April 29 – Fidel Castro announces that all intellectual property belongs to the people and that Cuba intends to translate and publish technical literature without compensation.

The Court, like most Imperial Courts, was considered a reflection of the ruler at its center and Elizabeth was said to be “ the laziest, most extravagant and most amorous of sovereigns .” Elizabeth was intelligent but lacked the discipline and early education necessary to flourish as an intellectual ; she found the reading of secular literature to be “ injurious to health .” She kind and warm-hearted for the emotions sake alone, once going so far as to offer to finance the reconstruction of Lisbon after the 1755 earthquake destroyed the Portuguese city despite having and wanting no diplomatic relationship with the nation.

" And although he respected the work of Eliot, Williams became openly critical of Eliot's highly intellectual style with its frequent use of foreign languages and allusions to classical and European literature ..

Some write intellectual history ; others bring the results and methods of social history to bear on reading literature.

Aristodemus was the head of two schools of rhetoric and grammar, one in Nysa and one in Rhodes, the former of the two cities possessing a distinct intellectual curiosity of Homeric literature and the interpretation of epics.

If Byzantine literature is the expression of the intellectual life of the Byzantine Greeks during the Christian Middle Ages, then it is a multiform organism, combining Greek and Christian civilization on the common foundation of the Roman political system, set in the intellectual and ethnographic atmosphere of the Near East.

One use is in the form of licensed collectables based on intellectual properties, such as images, characters and logos from literature, music, movies, radio, television, and video games.

Popular by acts of graceful but corrupting generosity, by charming manners, and by the appeal of hereditary honours-they collected the material power granted by a multitude of clients and followers, and the intellectual power provided by the monopoly of philosophical education ; their taste in the fine arts, and their knowledge of stylish literature.

Moreover he warned of a Jewish intellectual plot, claiming that Jews had " usurped " a good half of all literature.

At this time, in addition to his already profound Greek intellectual inheritance, he became learned in Latin literature, both sacred and secular.

On his death, the obituarist of The Independent wrote: " he was a man of formidable intellectual power with a rare gift for understanding a wide range of human motives, hopes and fears, and a prodigiously energetic capacity for enjoyment – of life, of people in all their variety, of their ideas and idiosyncrasies, of literature, of music, of art.

His intellectual articulation of Hasidic philosophy, as well as his greatness in Rabbinic literature could appeal to the camp of opposition.

1948 saw the publication of Andersch's essay " Deutsche Literatur in der Entscheidung " ( German Literature at the Turning Point ), in which he concluded, in the spirit of the American post-war " re-education " programme, that literature would play a decisive role in the moral and intellectual changes in Germany.

There is also a literature of intellectual capital and intellectual property law.

Exhibited in shows in London in 1935, and in New York the following year, the new, more elaborated abstracts were much favored in the circles of the modernists as three-dimentional dramas of great intellectual coherence.

God knows that Partisan and the rest often were, and remain, guilty of intellectual flatulence.

Hans' student days were at a time when Europe was in a new intellectual ferment following the revolutions in America and in France, Germany and Italy were rising from divisive nationalisms and a strong wave of intellectual awareness was sweeping the Continent.

The Greek sculptors considered the senses more important, and the proportions were used to unite the sensible with the intellectual.

The Hundred Schools of Thought were philosophers and schools that flourished from 770 to 221 BC, an era of great cultural and intellectual expansion in China.

The intellectual society of this era was characterized by itinerant scholars, who were often employed by various state rulers as advisers on the methods of government, war, and diplomacy.

Rival Muslim dynasties such as the Fatimids of Egypt and the Umayyads of al-Andalus were also major intellectual centres with cities such as Cairo and Córdoba rivaling Baghdad.

Both were Hebrew Christians with sufficient intellectual authority.

Cryptanalysts were selected for various intellectual achievements, whether they were linguists, chess champions, crossword experts, polyglots or great mathematicians.

Begun in 1881, her journal ends in 1897 when her artistic and intellectual energies were absorbed in scientific study and in efforts to publish her drawings.

The Hundred Schools of Thought of Chinese philosophy blossomed during this period, and such influential intellectual movements as Confucianism, Taoism, Legalism and Mohism were founded, partly in response to the changing political world.

In this period also started the penetration of Western culture, but most Chinese thought that the Westerners were maybe more advanced in technology and warfare, but that China had primacy in moral and intellectual fields.

As a result of the protests, Bloom stated, " American universities were no longer places of intellectual and academic debate, but rather places of ' political correctness ' and liberalism.

She had her own intellectual ambitions as a young woman, but they were blocked by social restrictions, because of her poverty, her being a woman and wife, and her Jewish ethnicity.

Furthermore, Clark's motivations for his professional writing were deepened as both a love for the art which contributes at least as much social good as his Superman activities and as a matter of personal fulfillment in an intellectual field where his abilities give no unfair competition to his colleagues beyond typing extraordinarily fast.

For many participants, the movement was a protest against the bourgeois nationalist and colonialist interests, which many Dadaists believed were the root cause of the war, and against the cultural and intellectual conformity — in art and more broadly in society — that corresponded to the war.

* Axis II: Personality disorders and intellectual disabilities ( although developmental disorders, such as Autism, were coded on Axis II in the previous edition, these disorders are now included on Axis I )

Reflecting the intellectual climate of the time, there were differences among deists about freedom and determinism.

He later stated that he believed they were " intellectual muckpots leaning on a theory ".

On June 3 police interrogated Jessie Misskelley Jr. Misskelley, whose IQ was reported to be 72 ( making him borderline intellectual functioning ), was questioned alone ; his parents were not present during the interrogation.

Their intellectual abilities were also tested.