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Politics aside (if that is possible), Robert Hutchins defines an intellectual as "a person who lives by his wits, whose first object is to educate himself. You can win a Nobel prize and still not be an intellectual." Historian Richard Hofstadter describes the intellectual as a man who lives for ideas, while the professional man lives off ideas. Another historian, Christopher Lasch, calls him "a person for whom thinking fulfills at once the function of work and play." Clearly, an intellectual's mind is not restricted to one discipline, but ranges widely in many areas, seeking larger patterns...
...warmly institutionalized." At each stage of the war's escalation, he was invited to express his dissent. Concludes Thomson: "Ball felt good, I assume (he had fought for righteousness); the others felt good (they had given a full hearing to the dovish opposition), and there was minimal unpleasantness." Historian Eric Goldman, who left the White House in 1966 after nearly three unhappy years as President Johnson's "intellectual-in-residence," feels that the intellectual must go further than token dissent: "If you disagree with a basic policy of a President and you are working for him, you have...
...Microsecond to Decide. For all its plans, NASA is still having difficulty convincing its critics that it ought to be sending men even to the moon. As the lunar landing approaches, the debate over manned v. unmanned space shots has intensified. Historian Arnold Toynbee calls Apollo "moonmanship follies." John Kennedy's science adviser, Jerome Wiesner, warns that "it would be a mistake to commit $100 billion to a manned Mars landing when we have problems getting from Boston to New York City." Says Physicist Ralph Lapp: "Given a choice between $500 million for basic research and the same amount...
What is most impressive about the book, magazine, or whatever is the range of its analysis. It shows how each and every Harvard department serves a corrupt establishment, from Fine Arts (". . . the art historian at Harvard for the most part is working for and with the ruling class--for those that have time to acquire their particular 'culture.'") to Literature ("Little attention is ever paid to the communal or 'folk' aspects of literature, or a 'pre-capitalist' literature which expresses the myths and values of a group."). Now, a great deal of this writing is remarkably puerile...
...historian, Toynbee labored simultaneously for 20-odd years on two great works. On one, begun in 1924, he did have the collaboration of Veronica Boulter who later became his wife (his first wife, Rosalind Murray, is mentioned here only once, in connection with her remarkable ability to communicate extrasensorially with her father, the Greek scholar Gilbert Murray). Their joint undertaking was the production of Survey of International Affairs, a running record of world events. In 1927 he began unaided A Study of History, which in twelve volumes describes and attempts to explain the dynamics of human civilization from...