Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plenty of tormentors from the right, both in and out of Congress. But "whatever constriction of academic freedom may have come to pass in recent years because of timidity about expressing political opinions, this loss is very small in comparison with the diminution of true freedom of the intellect through a deadening but voluntary conformity to pragmatic smugness and the popular shibboleths of the day ... If the Academy is to preserve its liberties ... it must be defended by men loyal to transcendent values...
...share a rare combination of sensitive, creative intellect and administrative forcefulness. They met in the wartime Pentagon, where Proper Bostonian Cutler, handling officer procurement, "hired" Proper Houstonian Anderson* as a major. Cutler rose to brigadier general, while Anderson served as a Military Government staff officer in the Middle East and returned to Washington a colonel. Two years ago Bobby Cutler got President Eisenhower to appoint Anderson as one of seven outside National Security Council consultants...
...only in capturing the true flavor of Chesterton's gentle detective tales. The concept of an arch-criminal brought to rights by an equally archdetective (an amateur, at that) is not of our era, with its low-keyed police efficiency. In all Europe there is only one man whose intellect can cope with the man who for ten years has pilfered art treasures without leaving the police any more of a clue than his pseudonym, Flambeau. To play this sort of thing in any but the Edwardian dress and spirit is as an acronistic as expecting Sherlock Holmes to track...
...scientist holds political influence far beyond his political authority, so do ministers, doctors, educators, and business men. It would seem to follow that all should hesitate to speak, for fear that their words might imply that their opinions were echoed by America's great institutions. Men of intellect would remove themselves from political controversy, leaving democracy to deal in debased currency...
...also what they call un homme engage. As a man committed to action, Malraux-believing Communism to be the wave of the future-intrigued in the Chinese revolution and flew for the Loyalists in Spain; during World War II, he fought brilliantly in the Resistance. As a man of intellect, he distilled powerful novels from his experiences (Man's Fate, Man's Hope...