Word: intellects
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...doubt Clinton's raw intelligence, but intellect lags behind fortitude when considering the qualities that make Presidents successful. Ronald Reagan, at sea when it came to programmatic detail, was successful nonetheless because many Americans admired the strength of his convictions and his resolve in pursuing them. "We'll make some hay about Republican meanness,'' says a White House aide, "but our overarching obstacle is that many see the President as weak, as someone who doesn't stand for anything...
...what Gates and Bingaman could not have foreseen is that the case would land before the ornery intellect of Stanley Sporkin-a former chief of enforcement at the Securities and Exchange Commission who never learned the meaning of the words "It's none of my business.'' The more Sporkin learned about Microsoft in hearings that began last fall, the less he liked the settlement that Gates and Bingaman had worked out and the role that he, as the reviewing judge, was being asked to perform. "I will not be played for a fool," he warned during a heated session last...
Fluent in Latin and Greek, Vienna is a Northerner who lands in the small town of Winsville to marry a man who will never appreciate her intensity or intellect. Like some fiercely independent Victorian heroines, Vienna is doomed to the life of a pariah by the narrow-mindedness of others. She is betrayed and abandoned by friends and lovers; her children remain outcasts by association; she is destroyed by the death of those dearest to her. Vienna is, above all, a woman for whom brilliance and sensuality provide a painfully meager shield against the truculence of fate...
...human intellect, thus liberated, proved prodigious; the fruits of its accomplishments are ever present in the developed world and tantalizingly seductive to those peering in from outside the gates. John Paul is not a fundamentalist who wants to repeal the Enlightenment and destroy the tools of technology; the most traveled, most broadcast Pope in history knows the advantages of jet airplanes and electronics...
...most of the performance, he struts his manliness and often gets into a battle of the bulge with Rittenhouse (Hans Canosa). Canosa is also the director of the production, and casting himself in this role is a suspicious move, since Rittenhouse is the loftiest of characters in terms of intellect and smugness. Canosa appears comfortable, almost too comfortable, punctuating sentences with a cigar that is never lit but just licked at the end for effect. His character is enigmatic but haughty and egocentric...