Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thank you for helping me justify the addition of a name to my dormant-since-Lincoln list of "Politicians Worthy of Hero Worship." It is a delight to find that not everyone in politics suffers from acute atrophy of the intellect. My only regret is being unable to vote for the remarkable Senator Scott of Pennsylvania [June...
Both these basic goals -- independence and a multi-dimensional competency --contribute, in turn, to a certain freedom of spirit and intellect which is philosophically necessary for anyone who wants to wear away the wall of life, as Camus said, or to give his body for the public service, as Theodore Roosevelt said...
...acknowledged by the press and Congressional leadership to be the most capable and assertive Negro in Congress, now that Powell is out of power. A 37-year-old veteran of the Korean War and former labor and civil rights lawyer, Conyers not only impresses his colleagues with an agile intellect and a proclivity to do his homework. His speeches are laden with scholarly quotes -- particularly about American Negro history. And unlike the other Negroes in Congress, Conyers has taken pains to search out opinions from Negroes across the nation. Despite his good attendance record, much of his time these days...
...bread-and-butter" man; his main concern is with improving the economic lot of the nation's Negro. He is more publicly interested in the matters politicians deal with -- poverty programs and Negro bloc voting power -- than he is with "blank consciousness." Yet his personality and intellect are such that he has not shut himself off from the more alienated part of the Negro population. An elected official, Conyers must be concerned with political -- and economic -- power. But his vision simply is far more piercing than that of the ordinary Negro politician who came to power in the waning days...
...choice, rather, is for individual issues, one or a few at a time. Issues with a high moral content are preferred--like those involving equality, freedom and peace. Intellect, like ideology, is suspect. Morality, instead, is substituted. Facts, history, analysis, theory are often considered more impediments than aids...