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...excessive fee taking (all unrelated to the foundation awards). In a countermotion, the foundation charged that John D. MacArthur had held Roderick in low regard, and produced a 1975 letter from father to son that said, "Most of your life has been wasted. You were born with a good intellect but never learned the meaning of teamwork...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Happy Fellows, Family Feud | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

...this policy is the best Louis can muster to support his assertion that the federal government is the chief oppressor of Black people, then I think we can safely conclude that, in this case as in so many others, Louis's appeals offer more to the emotions than the intellect...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Aff. Action | 2/9/1984 | See Source »

...picture of Dostoevsky emerging in Frank's pages looks less and less like the avatar of existentialism; he was a sensitive, moody, deep intellect responding to tumultuous current events more than a century ago. And the best is yet to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Crime and Punishment | 1/30/1984 | See Source »

...creation of this work," he might say, "was accomplished in my small study. There in the presence of the artifacts of my life--various pieces of stone, various edges of brass, the Mobius strip of my intellect. The lighting was dim, the room was a cave my mind was the world...

Author: By Hanne-maria Maiiala, | Title: Savagery Pays Off | 12/6/1983 | See Source »

...Stalin-as he is, of course? To say "X is a gifted writer, but he is a political enemy and I shall do my best to silence him" is harmless enough. Even if you end by silencing him with a tommy-gun you are not really sinning against the intellect. The deadly sin is to say "X is a political enemy: therefore he is a bad writer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Quotable Orwell | 11/28/1983 | See Source »

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