Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy institute at Harvard, where politicians and scholars will meet to discuss the theory and exercise of power. Last week it found its 'Iggins. Harvard's President Nathan Pusey gave the job to Columbia Professor Richard Neustadt, 45, who has thought a great deal about intellect and politics...
...book Presidential Power, Neustadt explored "the classic problem of the man on top in any political system: how to be on top in fact as well as name." Ultimately, says Neustadt, "presidential power is the power to persuade." The purpose of intellect in a President is to make others "believe that what he wants of them is what their own appraisal of their responsibilities requires them...
...proposed Institute to the Board of Overseers yesterday. He said that millions saw in President Kennedy "a gifted young man of courage and intelligence, who relished the life of a politician as fully as any, but who at the same time was happily at home in the world of intellect within a university...
Cummings asks his audience to cast off cherished preconception so that they can feel the world with his own sardonic intellect and agile senses. "Whenever a stuffed platitude hits you in the exaggerated emphalos," Cummings counsels, "respond with a three-fisted aphorism to the precise casazza." If that advice does not offend you, the Theatre Company of Boston will delight you with its production...
...anything from doing them? Is there any sense in my staying up until 4 every night when I am so tired and sick of everything that I can't absorb what I am doing or learn by doing it? If the object of college is the cultivation of the intellect and the pursuit of knowledge, why can't I cultivate and pursue without the guilty thought of the report I should be writing? Why does the American system of college education spread so thin...