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...played host to no fewer than 18 foreign heads of state. Before each meeting he has read up on his guest. In the case of Menachem Begin, Israel's new Premier, Carter digested his book The Revolt. By the time they parted, Carter liked Begin for his intellect and warm manner. But Begin returned home and announced that three Israeli settlements on captured Arab territory would be legally recognized. The President's opinion of Begin plummeted. Now Carter is not very trusting...
...first, most people seem to be fascinated by sociobiology, but at the same time they hate it," says Senior Editor Leon Jaroff, who edited this story. "They feel diminished by the theory. They'd like to think that most of their behavior is determined by intellect, whereas the sociobiologists are saying that it's a result of evolution...
Today it is difficult to guess the degree to which the grueling experience of the '50s has penetrated to the heart of this man who, with his subtle intellect and unobtrusive manner, remains, even to his closest students, almost Chinese in his mysteriousness. Superficially, few scars show. In one of his annual lectures in History 1711, "The United States and East Asia," he has recited the series of questions members of McCarran's committee once fired at him with a characteristically Fairbankian sense of deadpan humor. But, as few who know him at all can fail to mention, Fairbank often...
Critics claim Wald is too image conscious, exploiting research and issues for his personal exposure. But his contributions to science and society have come about as a result of the public's perception of him--regardless of its accuracy. As Mendelson says, Wald, with his creative intellect and moral convictions, has "pierced the mystique of science" and "set a new standard for scholars...
Freund's citation says he is "A brilliant scholar whose powerful intellect illumines the history of American constitutionalism; a kindly and responsive colleague for whom no task is too great, no problem too small...