Word: intellective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...technicians is a narrow? educational goal. If the aim is "to develop applied professional skills, enabling the individual to perform specialized, functional tasks, then Soviet higher education is unquestionably a success," he says. But if, as the West believes, the aim is ''to develop a creative intellect critical of society and its values, then Soviet higher education is an obvious failure...
...Uncertain Art. Kennedy exercises his intellect by demanding diverse position papers on many topics; he relaxes it by letting his mind range over history and politics. But for getting work done, he has come more and more to depend on the political pros and the able technicians: Brother Bobby, Defense's McNamara, State's Dean Rusk, Treasury's Douglas Dillon and Speechwriter Ted Sorensen. Kennedy's greatest respect is reserved for men who get things done, rather than those who just think about them. "We always need more men of ability who can do things...
Misalliance, by George Bernard Shaw. That old boulevardier of the intellect, G.B.S., loved to wear ideas like carnations. Unlike carnations, few of the ideas in this 1910 buttonhole have withered...
Gideon (by Paddy Chayefsky) explores the relationship of an ordinary man to God. There could scarcely be a larger theme. It demands great powers of eloquence and intellect, a burning air of exaltation that Playwright Chayefsky does not fully command. But he does possess high gifts of humor, characterization, and a sense of the dominion and perplexity of faith, and these help make his play a lustrous and compelling experience...
...governmental personnel for its size than any country on the continent, with the exception of the Portuguese colony. British educational system has produced a breed of half caste intellectuals and semi-sophisticates facile in the superficial expressions and manners of the Western life for which they have prepared. Their intellect worldliness separate them sharply from their homes and villages, but their education has not allowed really them to understand or share the bureaucratic and scientific traditions in which they will work...