Word: woodrow
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...circular dilemma: Is a leader chosen only after a critical, reasonably mature, well-informed public has decided roughly where it wants to be led; or does a leader appear first to tell the public where it wants to be led? Woodrow Wilson held that leadership is "interpretation" or articulation: "The forces of the public thought may be blind; [the leader] must lend them sight; they may blunder; he must set them right." But Wilson cautioned that the leader must not get too far ahead of his public: "He must read the common thought; he must test and calculate very circumspectly...
Winston Churchill, Thomas Jefferson, or almost any of the founding fathers -Adams, Madison, Washington. Perhaps Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson as well...
...then you would have to name Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, Confucius, the great prophets of the world. Among political leaders, Alexander may have been the greatest. He brought the Greek and Oriental civilizations together, and it's hard to conceive of this happening without his personal intervention. Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, who set the terms for political discussion. But both pale before two 19th century intellectual giants, Sigmund Freud and Lenin's own mentor, Karl Marx, the secular prophets of our time...
...emphasis on careers seems nobler than the publishing course's, mostly because all of its students are poor and come to Harvard on some sort of grant. This year the Department of Health, Education and Welfare is paying for 150 of the program's 162 students and the Woodrow Johnson Foundation the rest. But the program has been controversial this year because it is primarily designed for minority students--blacks, Chicanos, Puerto Ricans and American Indians--to the near-exclusion, as it turns out, of equally disadvantaged whites...
Born in New Jersey when Woodrow Wilson was still governor, the 62-year-old Kennedy Democrat had attended St. Paul's, the College, and the Law School during the height of the Depression. A labor negotiator with a hard-nosed reputation, Cox served in the Solicitor General's Office under Roosevelt in the '40s and on the Wage Stabilization Board under Truman...