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Perhaps the most moving of these -- a Spanish equivalent, in its effort to embody intellect, of David's portrait of the Lavoisiers -- is his 1798 portrait of Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, the outstanding thinker of the Spanish Enlightenment, a much-exiled man who briefly held state office as the Minister of Religion and Justice under Carlos IV. Goya shows him at an ornate desk in the Madrid palace, lost in melancholy thought amid props that seem out of scale with his modesty...
...Brown's best defense against the perception that he is "Jesse's man" is simply to tell people who he is and where he comes from. His life story, in addition to bearing witness to his own intellect, illustrates the keys to success that existed 30 years ago for a black born in the inner city: a neighborhood that included the middle class as well as the poor, a childhood filled with role models, a father who worked, schools that actually educated, and the leadership opportunities that ROTC and the Army offered...
...years ago. Reagan's four immediate predecessors presided over a frightening decline in presidential authority. Neither Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford nor Jimmy Carter could manage two full terms. Their serial failures left the presidency bordering on decrepitude. That an elderly celluloid cowboy from California unencumbered by heavy intellect, workaholism or Washington experience might halt that decline was inconceivable to the Eastern smart set. Yet Reagan not only arrested the presidency's slide, he reversed it. His high approval rating -- 64% last week, 5 points above Dwight Eisenhower's in December 1960 -- is only one crude measure of that...
...extensive knowledge and understanding of historical forces gives Morris a leg up on most travel journalists. What distinguishes her work is an ability, if not need, to write with her senses as well as her intellect. The sights and sounds of what she calls Hong Kong's "fructifying untidiness" are abundant and enthusiastically conveyed. So are the odors, especially what the author calls a blend of "duck-mess" and gasoline...
...does Bush have a keen intellect or a mind that is adept at placing events and challenges within a conceptual framework. He is smart and dogged in sorting through information, but he has never been known for imaginative ideas, probing insights or creative brilliance. Forty years ago, as he walked with a friend across the Yale campus to be inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, Bush volunteered that he was not a real intellectual. He prides himself on being a practical man, a problem solver, a bit of an overachiever. Some friends say his most notable trait is his persistence...