Word: intellective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cherubic face, easy grin and mild-mannered, professorial air still conceal his intellect from casual acquaintances. But a discussion of opera-or early Bing Crosby-will set him off, as will any mention of Augustine, Nixon, Sophocles or the Baltimore Colts. With his wife and three children, he is quite happily settled in a modest home in a Baltimore suburb built largely to the postwar specifications of G.I. loans...
...backlash effects of helping some needy people at the expense of others who refuse to share their gains-or does it sorely need a unifying national challenge, a moral equivalent of Pearl Harbor? To lead and heal the nation, Richard Nixon will have to marshal immense compassion and intellect. The presidential imperative to comprehend the real forces of the age-and link them constructively to the unique character of the "Citty upon a Hill"-may never have been so difficult...
...city of Wolverhampton, which he has represented since 1950; he is also a former professor of Greek at Australia's Sydney University, at age 27 was the author of four scholarly books, and speaks eleven languages with varying degrees of proficiency. Powell argues his case with a formidable intellect...
Women will be heard from in other ways. Doris Lessing, forsaking African memories and revelations of the inner world of the feminine intellect in London, plunges into fictional futurism with a book called 7999. Eudora Welty, the soft-voiced but enduring prose mistress of Mississippi, is bringing out her first novel in 15 years. Jean Stafford (Boston Adventure, The Mountain Lion), who has also siphoned off much energy into intricate short stories, has finished her first novel in 17 years. Titled A Parliament of Women, it is set in the author's native Colorado, and one of the main...
...money for colleges and students enough, said the commission. More federal funds must be provided for counseling potential college students and guiding them toward higher education. The Government must also pay for a talent search among ill-prepared students from second-rate colleges who have the intellect for graduate studies, and subsidize studies to help them qualify...