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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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 whether present-day America can boast...
Specifically, he recommended 1) a sliding scale of income eligibility for those covered by the bill; 2) state and local administration of the program; 3) that the program offer something more than medicare's "single type of standardized protection which is certain to be unsuitable for many"; 4) that the major health-insurance carriers be designated the underwriters of any such program because of tbeir previous experience in the field; and 5) that the insurance carriers be legally permitted to recognize the "customary" charges made by physicians rather than Government-set "reasonable" fees...
...still possible to speak of the American intellectual as a type, by no flight of the imagination can he be looked on as alienated from American life. He is too much a part of it, and when he quarrels with his society, he quarrels with himself...
...after doctors at Memorial had all but given up hope for a patient dying of renal failure. The vaunted artificial kidney could no longer clear the poisons from his blood, and only a transplant offered any hope. But the only kidney available was far from promising. The donor had type A blood while the kidney patient had type O. Worse, the donor's kidney was infected and was about to be removed because it was draining improperly. It had already been physically damaged by obstruction resulting from cancer of the colon...
Bolling emphasizes his position as an establishment, middle-of-the-road type in his descriptions of the Lanrum-Griffin, Civil Rights, and Rules fights. He tried to get pro-labor liberals to accept a moderate labor control bill. He implies that their failure to do so contributed to the eventual passage of the strongly anti-labor Lanrum-Griffin bill. In the civil rights fight of 1960, he again took an establishment position. He refrained from participating in the DSG tactic--which violated House rules--of publicizing names of those Republicans who hadn't signed the discharge petition. After the bill...