Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dinner one day, first at the Elysée and then at the Quai d'Orsay. Unruffled, Wilson declared the conversations "outspoken, robust and constructive," and a smiling De Gaulle let it be known on his part that he had been considerably impressed with Wilson's intellect...
...simple ignorance. Everyone knows that Harvard students are more intelligent, more serious, better prepared, etc., etc., than ever before. I don't raise a question of intellectual ability, in the common sense of the term, but of the ability--and desire--to communicate, to exchange ideas, to use intellect for something more than exam-time cramming and tutorial papers. The death of small magazines is simply a symptom of the infection of professionalism and careerism is slowly spreading through the College...
...soon as we enable all of our citizens to perform skills needed in our mechanized economy, unemployment will shrink and the national intellect will grow. "Machines provide jobs for men if there are men capable of filling them." The great theme of the next few decades, and of The New Improved American, is education. The route to Paradise passes through the schools...
Using this technique, the USIS attempts to communicate the "spirit" of Kennedy's two years and 10 months as President: his "youth, intellect and vigor." And it is most successful when it lets Kennedy speak for himself. Around the world, says the narrator, the Kennedy administration confronted communism with the determination of our people to defend freedom, justice, etc. But the "face" of anticommunism does not come alive until Kennedy himself stands before a crowd of cheering West Berliners and challenges those people "who do not see the issue between communism and freedom," those who think that "communism...
...President went looking for a man who could handle the situation, and he found the man at his elbow. Captain Meriwether Lewis, Jefferson's lifelong friend and private secretary, was a Virginian who at 29 combined impressive military and diplomatic experience with a lively intellect, immense stamina and wide knowledge of the frontier. Go west, young man, said Jefferson-and westward Lewis went...