Word: intellection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...learned when to fight and when to compromise. Two of the Senators he most respects are Republicans: New Hampshire's able and liberal Charles Tobey, and Ohio's conservative Robert Taft, whom Douglas regards as a Bourbon, but also as a man of honesty and intellect...
...guess a picture is good when it just don't irritate the eye. Poetry, imagination, intellect, temperament, oh they can come in on a later train...
They are a different breed of men from the Roosevelt advisers, who were fire-breathing liberals, poets and intellectual revolutionists. These are the quiet, less flamboyant men whom a political revolution produced. None of them embarrasses Mr. Truman by an ostentatious display of intellect. From them Mr. Truman seldom hears anything but what he wants to hear. Few of them had any careers of any importance outside of Washington, or outside of the Roosevelt and Truman Administrations. Few of them are any better known than Charlie Murphy himself...