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This is typical treatment, but it has a sad result. It prevents Lasch from considering that Skinner's case perhaps exemplifies the universal tendency of the unsupervised intellect to create systems and products which are useless, in jurious, or unacceptable to mere human its. Though it is heresy in some circles to suggest it, the proper as well as the actual test of ideas may prove to be their political usefulness and social acceptability not their academic popularity...
With disarming intellectual and political innocence, Lasch writes on the teleogical assumption that the intellect is naturally suited for the ends to which modernist in tellectuals most often put it. He translates the misguided American trust in the innocence and perfectibility of nature into the goodness and universal applicability of rationality. His faith in this faculty is so strong that he overlooks the disadvantages of his genre. Lasch cannot explore the questions he raises nearly as well as novelists can. Nor can he, in contrast to the religious or ethical writer, and to politicians of all varieties, even pretend...
...desire to leave her Cabinet-level post after the current General Assembly session ends in December. The only question during the past year was whether she would return to private life or move into one of the handful of policymaking jobs in Washington that appeal to her formidable intellect. In the days after the presidential election, her choice was rapidly narrowed as Ronald Reagan issued, and was taken up on, reappointment offers to the incumbent Secretaries of State and Defense, the National Security Adviser and the head of the Central Intelligence Agency. That was just about the extent of Kirkpatrick...
Ajemian's new assignment as bureau chief in Boston is, he says, "a thrilling homecoming. I started there 36 years ago as a sportswriter and have always been lifted by its character. Its power is less clenched, less sweeping perhaps, but rich with intellect and history and strong, gentle minds...
Mondale: God forbid. You know, Ron, we're lucky we've got some smart guys behind the scenes. Our advertising drive of you capturing the nation's emotion and me nabbing the American intellect was damn effective. But I'm glad some of those lefty Central America sympathizers didn't look up 1964 in their American history textbooks...