As smart women we were raised to believe that success and happiness are based on intelligence and accomplishments.
And yet I respect the man, his intelligence, his accomplishments, and his humanity.
Despite his intelligence and accomplishments, Albert Einstein kept a sense of wonder throughout his life that made him continue to ask questions about the world.
Intelligence, intellect, accomplishments, facts, manners and even polite speech are derided as pejorative characteristics of "The Establishment," all those bright Poindexter types who've hijacked the country and conspired to keep the average Joe down for their own gain.
Yet, I came to understand that none of these qualities that I feel I embody -- my "off-stage" abilities, assets, attributes, intelligence, virtues, accomplishments, even talent -- that comprise the full person I am -- indeed, the person I have made myself into being -- these qualities that I think of as going into the "mark" of a woman -- none of them mattered to the judges.
The series, which arrived a month ago on MTV, seemed on paper as if it would be just another make-strangers-share-a-house reality show: eight young people of dubious intelligence and accomplishment were thrown together in a lavishly appointed residence in Seaside Heights, about an 80-mile drive from Manhattan, for a hormonally charged, alcohol-fueled summer.
There is the open mocking of attempts at some sort of dialogue in the wake of Trayvon Martin's killing; the snide disparagement of black intelligence and accomplishment; and pieces of advice — "Do not act the Good Samaritan to blacks in apparent distress, e.g., on the highway" — that aspire to intellectual bluntness, but instead are brutal, crude, and, more than either of those, wrong.
Myrna Coombs, a 57-year-old teacher, said that while she admired Carson's intelligence his professional accomplishments, she was a Democrat through and through – like most of Harlem, New York City and New York state.
The numerous 15th-century followers of Chaucer continued to treat the conventional range of courtly and moralizing topics, but only rarely with the intelligence and stylistic accomplishment of their distinguished predecessors.
