As with previous earthquakes, any explanation of this latest one poses us a sharp intellectual choice.
Its failure to solve either that decade's industrial crisis or the ideological schisms that prefaced fascism's war on the West and communism's hold in the East elicited from Hofstadter a sharp intellectual response.
Tumi has a sharp intellectual slant tempered by a commendable ability to write outstanding hooks; during his show, he had no problem leading thousands of Moroccan into call-and-response vocal parts.
One wonders whether Theobald should have perhaps commented on the "razor sharp" intellectual insight of those 2000 and 2001 authors to infer that the proteins that they identified are related via common ancestry (because of obvious sequence similarity), the conclusion in the title of Theobald's paper.
But to approach the work in simplistic this-equals-that terms is to miss its sharp, unpredictable intellectual rhythms and critical wit.
In the 15 years since, Judge Wood, 59, has done just that, playing the role of philosophical outlier, a left-leaning woman in a world of right-leaning men, including Judge Posner and Judge Frank H. Easterbrook, a sharp-tongued intellectual who is now the court's chief.
"There's something about China that seems to require sharp-elbowed intellectuals," says Jo Lusby, head of China operations for Penguin, the publishers of Tombstone.
All seven of the Glass children are sharp-witted intellectuals whose perspicacity was honed by regular appearances on a popular radio show "It's a Wise Child"; they're obsessed with learning and seem to have swallowed the entire philosophical canon of both east and west.
"How strange it would be if the final theory were to be discovered in our own lifetimes!" Steven Weinberg wrote some years ago, adding that such a discovery would mark the sharpest discontinuity in intellectual history since the beginning of modern science, in the seventeenth century.
It is well known that older adults who remain socially engaged are more likely to keep their intellectual skills sharper.
