Word: intellects
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...existence of God is a scientific fact constitutes preaching. Such a statement has no more foundation than one maintaining the divine origin of the universe. Imagine reading in a biology text: "The intricacies of nature are a clear sign that the universe was designed by some superior intellect." Any science professor arguing such a notion would probably be laughed out of Bio 2. Yet this statement is no less substantiated than the actual assertion made in the biology text. Each view simply reflects a different method of interpreting the same natural phenomena...
...balls that night, Clinton was like the college grind who drops in on frat bashes the night before the exam to show he's one of the guys, then sneaks back to his dorm to cram. Perhaps there is as much Nixon in him (the ambition, the intellect, the unkillability) as Kennedy (the charm, the recklessness, his position as centrist custodian of liberal dreams). He will need to be the best of both men if he is to close, as he said last week, "the gap between our words and our deeds...
...Senator from New York, a giant intellect who has succeeded Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen as chairman of the powerful Finance Committee, these few whispered words are a warning shot at least the equal of the spontaneous outpouring of public outrage that doomed Zoe Baird last week. Finance's domain, Moynihan rightly says, "covers everything the President cares most about -- economic recovery, trade issues, health care, welfare, Social Security, just about everything he got elected on. He's right when he says nothing he's proposed matters unless it passes the Congress. So he either talks to us sooner...
...years, all things Western were deemed subversive. I stumbled upon baseball whole doing my military service in Cuba. When I first saw the game, I was stunned by its combination of beauty and intellect, traits which I have since found only in one place, my wife...
...With an intellect unencumbered by a comparable ego, Stephanopoulos was able to bridge the chasm separating the campaign's often mismatched personalities. He made sure that Hollywood's laid-back producer Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, who made the convention bio-film, was on speaking terms with chain-smoking, laser-intense Grunwald; he doled out face time on television among aspiring talking heads; not least, he soothed the brilliant, tightly coiled gonzo strategist James Carville by watching infomercials and Julia Child with him when Carville was too nervous to work...