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Word: intellect (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seldom had occasion to look north to Canada for political excitement. Yet last week Americans could envy Canadians the exuberant dash of their new Prime Minister, Pierre Elliot Trudeau, who, along with intellect and political skill, exhibits a swinger's panache, a lively style, an imaginative approach to his nation's problems. A great many U.S. voters yearn for a fresh political experience, but at midpoint in 1968, the U.S. presidential race has begun to seem grindingly familiar. Hubert Humphrey and Richard Nixon appear destined to seize their parties' nominations, then meet in an old-style confrontation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE POLITICAL BLAHS | 7/5/1968 | See Source »

...premiere show, and the producers of Gunsmoke, Get Smart and The Name of the Game have ordered re-evaluation of all scenarios. Bruce Geller, producer of Mission: Impossible and Mannix, says: "We're going to explore other areas of conflict than violence-conflict of emotion and conflict of intellect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Programming: Catharsis--Maybe | 6/21/1968 | See Source »

...between life and death. The cerebellum, located to the rear of the underside of the brain, controls motor coordination. The occipital lobe, that part of the cerebrum directly above and extending past the rear of the cerebellum, affects vision. Other lobes of the cerebrum house seats of personality, intellect, speech, memory and sensory-motor activity. The midbrain area, directly beneath the juncture of the cerebellar hemispheres, is related to eye reflexes and both eye and body movements. It also serves as a pathway for nerve tracts running to and from the cerebellum and other parts of the brain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trauma: Everything Was Not Enough | 6/14/1968 | See Source »

...Intellect & Influence. Whether as public servant or private counsel, Fortas has never been an easy, friendly man. In his hugely successful Washington law firm of Arnold, Fortas & Porter, his younger associates found him machinelike, testy and hardboiled. Said one when asked for a brief description: "Unpleasant." Then the man reconsidered. "Meticulous," he said. On the court, Fortas' clerks are said to find a similar blend of thoroughness and severity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Activist Fortas | 6/7/1968 | See Source »

...high-powered intellect, combined with a legendary ability as a problem-fixer and a penchant for never repeating a confidence made Lawyer Fortas one of Washington's most influential private citizens long before his court appointment. It also made him a trusted adviser of President Johnson on everything from the Walter Jenkins scandal to the Dominican crisis. When Arthur Goldberg resigned from the court to move to the U.N., Johnson's first choice to replace him was inevitably Fortas. It was a political convenience that Fortas also happened to be Jewish and it was the court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Activist Fortas | 6/7/1968 | See Source »

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