Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pearson brought intellect and understanding to the problem of national unity, and so Canadians will ascribe his failure to bring about great improvements to his dismal television image, or to his age. But the real source of his failure is the enormous difficulty of the problem itself. It is not one that will suddenly disappear through sentimental reconciliation amid the glitter of a World's Fair, or through the charisma of a Canadian Kennedy...
...young man's affinity for bold, large-scale works-especially from the late 19th and early 20th centuries -that glow with color and abound with dramatic contrasts. His concern is not detail but sweep and sound. He hears music with his nerve ends more than with his intellect. For this reason, he is less assured when he traces the transparent architecture of Mozart and Bach, or unfolds the subtle poetry of Schubert. Yet these are not fatal flaws in a conductor of his age. What is important is that he has the right foundation to build on. The visceral...
...area of power that may be in this age almost more important than the constitutional authority. Johnson is essentially a manager and a manipulator. He knows where all the levers are and he knows how to use them. But when he must, by the sheer force of his intellect and his personality, develop that broad base of support essential to moving the country, he often fails dismally...
Bonnie and Clyde by Arthur Penn. A knowledge of the best in American film art (the work of Griffith, Hawks, Ford, and Hitchcock, for example) leads us to the conclusion that great films come instinctively to their makers, that thematic depth is rarely the product of an analytical intellect working deliberately toward that end behind the camera. The elements in Bonnie and Clyde, on the other hand, have been chosen with some care; each shot has a function largely conceived at a planning stage, and Arthur Penn can give us a reason for any given angle, lens, or shadow. Following...
Brzezinski. Such critics as Columnist Joseph Kraft charge that the President's own White House staff suffers a "poverty of intellect." The most talented of the presidential aides-men like Domestic Overseer Joe Califano, Speechwriter Harry McPherson and Security Adviser Walt Rostow-are grievously overburdened as a result...