"Respect for truth," O'Brien declared there on one occasion, "intellectual courage in the pursuit of truth; moral courage in the telling of truth: these are the qualities of a real, of a living university".
It has taken me so long (18 months) to react to the event partly because Prof. Blinder is scholarly, gentle in manners, the kind of likable person with whom I would have an intellectual conversation on occasion.
The latter was a response to the reception of his fictional biography of an Asian immigrant in Norway, Det 7 klima (1986; "The Seventh Climate"), a study of Norwegian cultural and intellectual life that occasioned a great deal of debate.
Its principles are simple: The writer adopts the pose that the motive is truth, the purpose is presentation, the reader is an intellectual equal, and the occasion is informal.
There will always be those who may not know even the meaning of ''obligation.'' Still, one can recommend this book as either an introduction to or reminder of Lionel Trilling, one of the few intelligent men of our time toward whose work, however opaque on occasion, an intellectual obligation exists.
Still, the charts did show the facts -- and in this respect they were the intellectual highpoint of the occasion.
It's time Arab intellectuals rise to the occasion".
He had always been a discreet person, and had in fact been criticized on several occasions for intellectual hermeticism.
Those kids who I taught a more traditional English course to previously, who seemed to be not interested, not motivated and did not do particularly well, came alive in "Visual Arts and Literature" and there was some sort of an intellectual awakening on several occasions.
One who supported intellectual freedom on multiple occasions was E. Benjamin Andrews, who was honored November 3 by the Academic Freedom Coalition of Nebraska (AFCON) at its 25th annual membership meeting.
