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...Pirandello is the philosopher king of 20th century playwrights, an existentialist before Sartre and Camus, an absurdist before Beckett and lonesco. This 48-year-old intellectual whodunnit has scarcely a grey line in its script, and the APA troupe has obeyed the playwright's commandment: "to convert the intellect into passion...
Influence & Intellect. Born in Pittsburgh on June 18, 1889, he went to work at 14 as an office boy for a leader of the moribund local Democratic machine. As labor's influence began to grow, the party began to revive, and Dave Lawrence became a tough, effective precinct captain. In 1912, he attended the Democratic presidential convention, was smitten with the polish and intellect of the nominee that year, Woodrow Wilson. Sighed Lawrence: "That man has the real class...
...Strange that the church, bent on freeing men, gets entangled constantly in ideas that enslave the intellect. At least Bishop Pike is searching for the historical (and theological) truth of the Incarnation, cutting through man-made accretions that are unnecessary for the Christian to believe and that are great stumbling blocks to the honest, intelligent, truth-seeking minds of the younger generation. (THE REV.) ERNEST W. COCKRELL Newton, Mass...
...Liberal Party of New York has a better alternative in Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. He has waged an indignant, fiery campaign against the Democratic bosses, and made some laudable suggestions for change. However, he lacks intellect, administrative ability, imagination, and power to mold public opinion, all of which Rockefeller has shown...
...physician is "a man of mediocre intellect, trade-school mentality, limited interests and incomplete personality." He has trouble diagnosing a boil. Scalpel in hand, he needlessly whacks off the nearest tonsil; absentmindedly, he seals sponges, forceps, suture needles, thread, scissors and drainage tubes into surgical wounds. He takes pharmaceutical lessons from drug salesmen and writes illegible prescriptions that kill his patients. He soaks the sick, cheats on his income tax and, on his inviolable Wednesday afternoons at the country club, devotedly chases par while his patients perish unattended in hospitals, as often as not from falling...