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...role in Viet Nam," he declares. "We were not immoral in our purpose." His right hand chops the air. "I'm sick and tired of apologizing for the United States." Instead of fudging, he frankly admits his lack of knowledge about some questions. "I have a good intellect," he will say. "But there is a hell of a lot I don't know. And I know I don't know it. That's the difference between me and Jimmy Carter...
...restoration of America's control over its own destiny. There was an impatience about Ted Kennedy, as if he were rushing away from the past into a dangerous but strangely exhilarating future. Something calling him. It is clear he does not have the depth and breadth of intellect of John...
...warranted. Sociobiology has a few faint and superficial resemblances to "Social Darwinism," as far as I can tell, limited to the use of the term "Darwinism." Every other aspect is profoundly different. They bear the same relationship to each other as phrenology does to neuroanatomy. Anyone of candid intellect would have, on the basis of a few moments of investigation, satisfied himself of the difference and moved on to more pressing areas of moral inquiry. To individuals with a profound need for moralistic posturing--or simply irritated with the pretensions that all intellectual fashions acquire--the temptation to distort...
...next. The columns are breezy and interesting, 800 weekly words offering a glance at an issue or a man. It is a measure of Strout's talent that he can use that most pretentious of devices--first person plural--and still display a friendly and approachable, yet always impressive intellect...
Bringing the Justices to consensus-Powell once described them as ''nine one-man law firms''-takes either considerable intellect or political ability or both...