Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intensely moral intelligence on questions of public responsibility and the possibilities of democracy. The force that his work exerts, however, comes not from political ideology, psychology or poetics, but from a resilient curiosity that encloses a molten core of doubt. What is man? How can he best manage his intellect and instincts? Those are the questions that spur Bellow's fictional quests. He finds no satisfying answers, but his special genius for characterization has progressively narrowed the distance between man's definition of himself and what he really...
...Agnew Issue. Nixon's most basic error may well turn out to be his selection of Spiro Agnew as a running mate. At Miami Beach, he effusively praised the Maryland Governor's "courage, character and intellect." Yet it was transparent that Agnew was chosen in large part because he was acceptable to South Carolina's Strom Thurmond and others in the party's Southern wing. Nixon spoke earnesty of Agnew's campaigning talents and called him "a statesman" who was amply qualified to take over as President...
...Although the outrages you report of the Philadelphia penal system [Sept. 20] are by no means unusual, there is clearly enough cruelty involved to "spring" many prisoners under the Eighth Amendment which guarantees no cruel or unusual punishment. What I cannot understand is that the legal profession with its intellect and the A.C.L.U. with its moral superiority do not seem to have found any test case...
...severe disease. First they regained the ability to make voluntary movements, next their rigidity was relieved, and finally tremor decreased. Inability to speak, poor articulation, excessive sweating, weeping and urinary disorders were "strikingly improved," as were mental attitudes. Some patients who had been apathetic and vague showed an "awakening intellect" with better memory and alertness. Several who had not been able to get out of a wheelchair unaided or to walk without fall ing can now do both...
...political stand has always offended me. The appeal of his ceaseless efforts to assail the "pseudointellectual" elements in our nation has particularly concerned me. The social, economic, political and technological problems we face are among the thorniest and most complex that have ever confronted us. They require intellect for solution. But George Wallace vilifies intellect and inevitably links it with subversive interests...