Word: feels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...depend on them to give advice, to see that he makes no untimely mistakes, to shield him from many things. I'd be an awfully poor Republican leader if I were not willing to shield the President of the United States from people I feel do him no good and could do him harm...
...legislative veto has not been invoked directly: Okinawan lawmakers simply do not introduce bills that they feel may be killed. But several officials have been removed in the past, and when Naha in 1956 elected a Communist mayor, the then-High Commissioner forced him out of office...
...obligation to suggest how it might be achieved. The fate of the Vietnamese whose lives depend on U.S. protection-well, such human complexities seemed irrelevant. Philosopher Herbert Marcuse brilliantly analyzes flaws in U.S. society, but he prescribes, among other things, a corrective "intolerance" from the left that, some feel, smacks of fascism run by intellectuals. "Absolutized thought," says Columbia's Daniel Bell, "is the real crime of the intellectuals...
...split is that there are really two kinds of intellectuals today: 1) the physical scientists and many (if not all) social scientists, who tend to be reasonably well satisfied with their inside roles in government, industry and the universities, and 2) the philosophers and literary intellectuals, who feel more or less like outsiders. This is basically the problem of the "two cultures" described by C. P. Snow. At the same time, many intellectuals are defecting from the first group and joining the second...
...also dismayed by the style of much intellectual thought today: the narrow pragmatism of the physical and behavioral sciences. The charge is that specialization has robbed thought of moral vision. In Big Science, for example, team members work on such small segments of an overall project that they feel no ethical responsibility for the result-a minor concern if the goal is a cancer cure, for example, but a major one if they work on pesticides...