Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...visitors turned out to look like bug-eyed monsters or gelatinous blobs, such species might serve to enlarge the vision of the Creator's creativity. To theologians the "image of God," after all, does not refer to the type of body that characterizes Homo sapiens but to the intellect and spirit that reside therein...
DIED. Matthew Josephson, 79, biographer of an imposing collection of Old and New World figures; in Santa Cruz, Calif. After a period as a young expatriate in Paris in the 1920s, Josephson concentrated on famous Frenchmen (Rousseau and Zola). But a roving intellect led him home to do literary portraits of Americans (Thomas Edison, Al Smith and Sidney Hillman) as well as a study of 19th century capitalists whose rapacious ways he exploited in his most celebrated book, The Robber Barons...
...Democratic businessmen on one hand." In Campaign 1976, he supported Walter Mondale and then Scoop Jackson, but, better late than never, he ultimately hopped aboard the Carter bandwagon. When Carter was searching for a Treasury Secretary, he was impressed by Blumenthal's business success, well-rounded personality and intellect...
Conservative Quinn, who succeeds Cincinnati's moderate Archbishop Joseph Bernardin, is best known for administrative skill and intellect, both useful at a time of continuing conflict between the bishops and dissidents agitated about such things as Rome's positions on divorce and birth control. The U.S. bishops' rapport with the Vatican, says President Quinn, is "good, because it's not bad." The U.S. hierarchy has rejected challenges to such Vatican policies as clerical celibacy and an all-male priesthood issued by diocesan delegates at last year's "Call to Action" meeting. But decisions are still...
...thing that Kuechenmeister is trying to improve is his modest portfolio of investments. "I have some investments that I'm going to seriously work at," he says. "This is an outlet I see that will certainly be taxing my intellect...