Word: expert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...journalists, covering President De Gaulle was almost as arduous and frustrating an assignment as reporting on mainland China from Hong Kong. One of the most expert Gaullologists in the business is Curtis Prendergast, now TIME'S London bureau chief, who contributed to this week's cover. During a nine-year term in Paris, Prendergast accompanied the general on ten tours of France's provinces and two dramatic descents on war-torn Algeria, as well as on ceremonial visits to Senegal, Mauritania, Greece, Mexico, the West Indies and Cambodia...
...Brilliant, somewhat bohemian, and always radiating bonhomie, he has succeeded in whatever he tried, including four distinctly diverse careers. To French politics he has brought the cultivation of a classics scholar (including 10,000 lines of French poetry that he can quote from memory), the logic of a legal expert and the savvy of a banker?all of which roles, without seeming to have prepared overly hard for them, he has played...
...during World War II, headed a missile-research team in Germany at war's end. In 1955, he was expelled from the U.S. as a suspected Communist. Since then he has made important contributions to China's nuclear-weapons program. Not that he was the only weaponry expert who moved into a position of influence in the party. Last week, as reports on the recently concluded Ninth Party Congress flooded out of Peking, the increasing pre-eminence of the military in China's politics was as easy to read as a big-character wall poster...
...Premier Chou Enlai, who had long clung to his ranking as third in the power hierarchy, was listed with two others as simply a member of the Standing Committee. China watchers saw this as a distinct loss of influence for Chou, who has a well-deserved reputation as an expert in political survival. Another surprise was the small size of the Standing Committee itself. In 1966, as the Cultural Revolution began, its membership doubled to 14 men. Now it is down to five,* indicating that Mao is intent on holding tightly to control...
...professional man lives off ideas. Another historian, Christopher Lasch, calls him "a person for whom thinking fulfills at once the function of work and play." Clearly, an intellectual's mind is not restricted to one discipline, but ranges widely in many areas, seeking larger patterns. No mere expert or operator, the true intellectual aims for synthesis, moral vision, a grand design...