Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There is something honorable and worthwhile in giving up one's career for service to one's country. To use one's superior intellect, position in life or possible future contributions to society as collateral against such service smacks of something other than democracy. To relieve a fellow of national service merely because he possesses a Ph.D. (or may, or could) or because he doesn't really want to serve does him and his country a severe disservice. He should be precisely the person called upon to perform the meanest of services, for he is supposedly...
...come to leave." Elaborating, Reischauer explains that what he had meant to do had been accomplished, and he is convinced he mght be able to make a greater contribution in academics than in diplomacy. "Five and a half years is a long, intense, tiring period, and I thought my intellect needed some refreshing," he says...
...shoo-in for a third six-year Senate term in 1968. Though a member of the minority party and something of a maverick, whose abrasiveness and hustle have always barred him from the Senate's cozy inner establishment, he has achieved rare respect and stature by force of intellect, diligence and integrity...
...When rape is inevitable, relax and enjoy it"), waxes cynical: "Students really have too good a deal. And with the tests, what you're doing is trying to decide what people have the right to die-and to do that on the basis of anything as arbitrary as intellect seems really wrong...
...farmer, he was sent at the age of 13 to the Bao Quoc pagoda in Hué to train for monkhood. Wild and fond of practical jokes at first, he was expelled, then given a second chance. He matured into a student with a photographic memory and a searching intellect. His teacher at Bao Quoc, Thich Tri Do, who now heads the tame Buddhist church of North Viet Nam, guided the impressionable novice into the winds of nation alism sweeping the then French colony...