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What does it mean to be an intellectual in the U.S.? Is he really in such an unhappy plight as he sometimes thinks-the ridiculed double-dome, the egghead, the wild-eyed, absent-minded man who is made to feel an alien in his own country...
...then passed resolutions praising the Bricker amendment and the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act. As everybody knew, Alex Wiley had been consistently faithful to the Administration's foreign policy as ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, had voted against the Bricker amendment, and had even been conveniently absent from the Senate when his fellow Wisconsinite Joe McCarthy came up for a censure vote...
...Absent from bookshops for decades, the first two reports, as well as a third that was incorporated in Frémont's Memoirs, have now been knowledgeably edited by Historian Allan Nevins, who is the best of Féemont's biographers. That they constitute one of the great source books of U.S. history is obvious. But it is as vastly enjoyable armchair adventure that Narratives of Exploration and Adventure can be put into the hands of anyone capable of being stirred by great undertakings. Georgia-born Engineer Frémont, intelligent and fearless as well...
...Karman is the model absent-minded professor. After he returns from a long trip, dozens of hats that he has lost dribble back by mail. During the war he was followed around by a special functionary whose duty it was to pick up secret documents that Von Karman left in taxis or hotel lobbies. He is never conscious of traffic: he crosses the most dangerous highway as if it were a country lane. His driving is as famous as his absentmindedness. A friend once suggested that he get three smashed fenders fixed. "Not yet," said Von Karman. He was waiting...
McCarthy, returning after a 20-year absence, absent-mindedly rambles through the streets of the city, describing land-marks and relating anecdotes about Harvard, recalling the "good old days...