Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what is the opposing historical force that leads intellectuals astray? College towns like Cambridge, whose populations fluctuate with the academic calendar. In fact, New York Intellect can be viewed as a history of the academization of intellectuals as much as anything else...
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...some members of the Iranscam committees, Poindexter's testimony simply did not wash. "I just don't believe what he says," remarked Democratic Congressman Louis Stokes of Ohio. "It does not appear logical that a man of his intellect and management skills would arrogate unto himself the responsibility of making a monumental decision affecting the President...
Certainly no one ever doubted Poindexter's intellect. "Even when we were kids, John was someone special," recalls his cousin Richard Poindexter, 54, who was close to him in childhood. "We knew he was extremely intelligent and seemed even then destined for greater things." The son of a banker, John Marlan Poindexter grew up in Odon, Ind. (pop. 1,400), described by Richard Poindexter as a "very conservative, Bible-belt community." A thin, shy and bookish child, Poindexter was an exemplary student who won appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy from the late Republican Senator Homer Capehart. Poindexter's mother...
...publicize the fact that he was the man who fired Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox during Watergate's Saturday Night Massacre. Says former U.S. Solicitor General Rex Lee, a Bork supporter: "Bob Bork is probably the most qualified person to be a Supreme Court Justice from the standpoint of intellect, temperament and training." A former Yale University law professor who was appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia by Reagan in 1981, Bork commands respect for his intellect even among those who deplore his devotion to the concept of "original intent." For decades Bork has been...