Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Having had good opportunity to study American intellectualism, quasi intellectualism, pseudo intellectualism, and anti-intellectualism, I should like to add a qualifying remark to your most stimulating Essay [May 21]. A great deal of the "respect" you are talking about is paid not to the intellectuals but to the intellectual charlatans of a TV quiz-show type. The true intellectual, the quiet, original thinker who has the acumen and the courage of original thought, still receives only a trifle of the recognition paid to the pseudo intellectuals who often dominate the scene. If those criteria are applied, it becomes doubtful...
...with a pulled muscle in his thigh; Catcher Elston Howard, his right arm in a cast, was earning his keep as a TV announcer. Star Pitcher Whitey Ford (1964 record: 17-6) lost his fourth straight game and was banished briefly to the bullpen-prompting one wag to remark, "This year, the bullpen is mightier than the Ford." And all this while, Al Lopez's White Sox were winning nine out of eleven and leading the American League by two full games...
Despite Ickes' blasts, Madam Perkins, as she was often called ("Call me Madam Secretary," she had told her staff), tried to corral her tongue and happily recounted the amazed remark of that gnarled old Texan, Vice President John Nance Garner, after Roosevelt's first Cabinet meeting: "You're all right. You've got something on your mind, you said it, and then you stopped." Said Madam Perkins: "I guess he feared I would be a vague woman-not quite sure of anything. Really I don't believe men would long tolerate vague women in public...
Bundie was thrown backwards by both the force and content of the Chief's last remark. He knew about the Mallinckrodt murder that morning...
...young detective didn't hear the last remark, for he was already out the door. He knew he was right now. Tht pouch of tobacco was important. Now he had to find the strange little foreigner with the only clue he had: a cryptic phrase--"the Bronze Rhinoceros...