Most important, it would be an intellectual tragedy.
I always expected that the Accelerator programme would be an intellectual challenge.
"Henceforth the snobbish system under which I would operate would be artistic, intellectual, cultural," he writes.
Who would be your intellectual or artistic predecessors, European or American?
When he said that serving on the court would be an "intellectual feast," he was simply being honest.
Some of the literary establishment's sniffiness must have got to her, though, because she admits, "I thought the Bod would be too intellectual to want my archive.
As the confirmation hearing has come down in history, Judge Bork's comment that serving on the Supreme Court would be an "intellectual feast" is what many people remember; it sounded so arrogant when it was, I think, rather refreshingly honest.
This latter was amplified when, asked by a sympathetic senator, Alan K. Simpson, Republican of Wyoming, why he wanted to serve on the Supreme Court, Judge Bork replied that it would be "an intellectual feast".
That a journalism school is located within a great university, which houses an extraordinary amount of expertise on virtually any subject, means that it would be an intellectual tragedy not to ensure that students partake of the feast.
He wrote an opinion piece in The Washington Post at the time arguing there would be "no intellectual honesty" in supporting executive overreach by Trump that he had opposed under President Barack Obama.
