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...Page One, Mark DeWolfe Howe predicted that Kennedy would make a poor Senator. The great legal thinker had worked for the Hughes campaign, and joined in the Harvard community's general low opinion of the new Senator...
...follow. Its theological superstars paced U.S. Catholicism into Vatican II thinking before the Second Vatican Council existed. Woodstock's Gustave Weigel was more than anyone else the father of American Catholic ecumenism. The late John Courtney Murray, the nation's most brilliant Catholic political thinker, was the prime inspiration behind Vatican II's decree on religious liberty...
...point of transition from the pre-eminence of sincerity to that of authenticity is far from clear; well into the twentieth century, as unlikely a thinker as Herbert Marcuse is found guilty of pleading a return to sincerity. But the mainstream is undeniably is another direction, and for Trilling its most radical current is that school of thought which sees insanity as a form of health, a viable "rational" expression of alienation from an "irrational" society...
While Allen would appear to have a Machiavellian streak, and Landry tends to sound as if he were Billy Graham with a game plan, Shula is a positive thinker in the mode of a Norman Vincent Peale. He is the son of a Hungarian immigrant who came to Painesville, Ohio, in 1910. As Don remembers, "I always wanted to do anything to the best of my ability. I always got upset, even in grade school, whenever I thought anybody was giving less than full effort." His shyness almost kept him out of the game he loves. He missed the opening...
...economics goes has resolved itself into a single issue: Can McGovern produce a sound and consistent policy for managing the intricate, delicate, complex U.S. economy? From high-salaried executives to modestly paid clerks, many believe that he cannot. They have concluded that McGovern is a fuzzy thinker who listens to bad advice from ultaliberal economists, changes his mind too often (Nixon's dramatic turnabouts on foreign policy and economic controls seem to be ignored), and makes promises that cannot be fulfilled...