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...moths in London and Salisbury. He was a big, ruddy-faced fellow, standing over six feet, with a chest like a barrel and a profile like something in a Punch & Judy show. His eyes, however, were "dark, and as full of sweetness as of fire," and his wit and intellect were already honed to a cutting edge. In London's beau monde of 1727, the petticoats rustled and the epigrams bristled where young Henry passed; he appeared to like the sound of petticoats best...
...bombast and ill-will, all the more venomous now that Republicans have their mandate, one of the nation's finest Secretaries of State left office last week. Brilliant enough to create profound policies, efficient enough to extract the best from his department, and bold enough to trust the experience, intellect, and judgment that went into foreign affairs during his regime, Dean Acheson is now reaping the sort of chaff great statesmen usually do in insecure times. When all has blown away, we suspect that Americans will appreciate fully the services of a man so well suited...
...least five seniors have a chance to "get a firm toe-hold on the educational ladder; to work among the Tlingit Indians, and to enjoy pleasant social intellectual companionship with people of superior intellect," the University of South East Alaska announced yesterday...
What manner of being is an egghead? Do you mean a sort of Martini-sipping Guru of beer-guzzling disciples? Or just anyone in whom intellect surpasseth understanding? . . . Perhaps . . . your readers can give us a clarifying definition of this intriguing word coinage ... So many of TIME'S readers in your Letters column acknowledge being eggheads, we should certainly be able to pin this thing down...
...experience at the Salzburg Seminar was not of a pseudo-United Nations composed of wrangling member nations, as Mr. Amfitheatrof's misnomer, "General Assembly" (instead of general summer session), might suggest; nor was it by any means of an "intellectual Point Four," with the inequality of intellect and the condescension that this term implies. Obviously, there was discussion and disagreement, as is to be desired in a closely-confined intellectual community. But this vibrant atmosphere. Far from leading to the formation of hostile camps rather served as the basis for the uniquely enriching undertaking which the Seminars...