Word: intellects
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Quayle serene merely because he is vacuous, preferring drift to ideology? That view obliges one to explain how, in politics, he drifted often and early to the top. Even his friends admit that his success was not by any blaze of intellect. Says M. Stanton Evans, the ex-editor of the Indianapolis News, who helped Quayle get his first political appointment: "There is a cycle in all of his offices. When he comes in, he is underestimated -- too young, too inexperienced -- and then he surpasses people's expectations." In other words, Quayle first gets the job and then gets qualified...
...hope that you will not choose to follow the crowd in pursuing knowledge only for its utilitarian purpose and only as a good in itself. I also hope that you will join SONG in our nationwide campaign to change public attitudes towards education and the intellect...
Pointing the finger is not the way to address Harvard's faults, numerous though they may be. It merely leads critics to believe that they, by power of intellect or strength of moral conviction, are superior to those they castigate. In their open attack on the University's backward-thinking leadership, the authors of How Harvard Rules fall prey to the very belief they should seek to dispel: the myth that Harvard ought to represent the best...
Moreover, there is no necessary connection between striving for knowledge and being a social misfit. In many cultures where intellect is valued more highly than it is here, academic achievement and social success go hand in hand...