intellect

So for my annual holiday columna recommending great books about Southern California, I’m sticking to formats that lend themselves to easier reading — bite-size jewels of intellect, if you will.

But before Miss Mexico Fatima Bosch was ultimately crowned, chaos reigned -- from allegations of an insult to her intellect, to judges quitting and participants taking flops on and off the stage.

The flip side of his enormous intellect, say critics, is a towering arrogance that alienated many over the years.

Instead they revered problems of commerce as “the grandest effort of the human intellect.”

Puzzles entice his keen intellect, but he will have to learn the difference between a paradox and a riddle.